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...Harvard’s graduating seniors and a team that struggled early in its league slate but has come on of late—sweeping last weekend’s series with division rival Brown—closing the season on an apparently meaningless high note carries important weight...
...hospital, our medical people pulled out all the stops. Cardiology came in because his heart was stuttering. Renal was called because Sandy's muscles - ripped around his broken hip, and squashed by his body weight on the hard floor - were producing myoglobin, which, along with dehydration and low blood pressure, was poisoning his kidneys. In the hospitals where I trained, this case would have been a "save" - a great grand rounds case. But here, especially with no family hovering, the only human audience was the crew taking care...
...clearly his brain. He's got that freak-out thing going, and it happens to baseball players all the time. His weight's okay, and he doesn't appear to have lost any bat-speed, but he's getting in the hole early in counts, swinging at bad pitches, pressing. He'll be fine by mid-season, I think. Fans have to remember that players like Derek Jeter (and even Teddy Ballgame) have gone through similar periods. A-Rod had one last year...
Children were also measured for body mass index, a ratio of weight to height that is used as an indicator of health risks...
...supermarket to how to prepare nutritious and delicious recipes under budget and time constraints. Give a man a packaged, fried fish stick, he’ll balloon into dangerous BMI territory; teach a man to filet, grill, and zest his tilapia, he’ll maintain a healthy weight. Like the teaching kitchen, the conference was divided into three principle parts: didactic nutrition sessions, culinary demonstrations of recipes consistent with the nutritional guidelines, and kitchen workshops in which participants learned how to prepare the food themselves. In reality, though, the most effective education broke down into three separate categories: breakfast...