Word: walking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WALK into any so-called health food store and you'll soon see that most are like franchised versions of the old side-show huckster who promises love with his magic potions and elixirs. Somewhere in front of the legumes you'll confront some of the ever-present, catchy slogans that infiltrate our fitness mentality : CRASH WEIGHT GAIN, RIPPED 'ABS' IN FIVE SECONDS, LOSE WEIGHT WHILE YOU SLEEP, BIG BICEPS WHILE YOU DO NOTHING BUT SPEND MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT...
Parents of children enrolled in the Morse Cambridge School also testified that the school's textbooks were dated. One parent read from a social studies book--currently in use--which urged students to prepare themselves for a time when people will walk on the moon...
...foggy afternoon in tiny Arcata, Calif., strollers ambling through coastal marshland seem caught in the colors of an impressionist canvas. As they walk past, sandpipers and pelicans patrol the edge of Humboldt Bay. Just inland, a freshwater swamp is alive with thousands of mallard, teal and pintail ducks. Egrets and herons poke among islands of leathery bulrush. Joggers are framed against fields of daisies and Queen Anne's lace. One walker, former City Councilman Sam Pennisi, proudly points to a sewage pipe spewing dark water into the bay. "This," he tells a visitor, "is what home-rule democracy...
...million rapsters have rung up Jazzy Jeff and friend since the debut of their two- minute talkfest last June. The cost: $2 for the first minute, 45 cents a minute thereafter. Other hot lines soon followed. Now word of Phone Programs' success has got around. "People from every walk of music are coming to us," says V.P. Cory Eisner...
Students may complain about the wait at University Health Services, but it seems as though professors have nothing to worry about. On a recent visit to the UHS walk-in clinic, a Crimson reporter who had been waiting for nearly an hour noticed Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen take a seat. Ten minutes went by, and the Oxford-imported scholar waited calmly next to the students. A harried doctor soon emerged, though, and with a "Right this way, Mr. Sen," whisked the professor away from the scene. The students continued waiting...