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...wouldn't think a diet would be a cause of marital discord. But it often is - at least when couples try to shed pounds together and, as often happens, the husband drops the weight a lot faster than the wife does. Well, guess what, guys? It's not your steely resolve or your trips to the gym or your superior genes that are entirely behind it. It might just be your brain...
...miniature, Albrecht Dürer, as early as 1450, is more like drawing than watercoloring in technique. The artist works over still wet washes of water-soluble pigment with a brush dipped in concentrated color and squeezed almost dry. The stiff bristles, flattened and frayed looking, add textures of weight and depth. "I use it for the grass on a hill, for example, or the bark of a tree," says Wyeth. * The National Gallery of Norway in Oslo has the 1959 tempera, Albert's Son, by donation from former U.S. Ambassador to Norway L. Corrin Strong...
...good ol’ American gym complete with sweat and bad pop music found herself in a bastion of French regimentation reminiscent of both the public university system and local fromagerie. It was monitored by conseillers du sport—workout counselors—who suggested suitable speed, weight, and water consumption to gym goers. The gym enforced strict rules: two minute showers, no personal belongings in the workout room, and shorts on men only (not an official rule, but I was the only girl in shorts).As with my gym, there’s an awful lot of structuring...
...quality, rather than the quantity, of its use that was most telling. The more he uttered disappointment, the more fraught it sounded, until it was delivered not just with his signature shoulder-hunching emphasis but with a kind of protestation that seemed to carry the full weight of his historic fall from nearly 90% approval ratings after 9/11 to his current tally of less than 30%, a record low. (Read "The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later...
...Ehrlich said. “Even being late to lift is a mistake you make once. If one person’s late, then the whole team’s guilty. You have 110 college kids and you tell them they have to be in the weight-room every morning at 6:30 and none of them are late—he managed that...