Word: weightness
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...shot and then blown up in an inside job; two Hamas men remain in a Palestinian jail accused of the crime. Other Palestinians blamed Israel. But after Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian officials to turn over to Israeli police the two Kalashnikov bullets found in Sharif's chest, new weight has been given to a different theory. Israeli forensics experts say the bullets were never fired from a gun and were probably part of the debris sent flying when Sharif accidentally triggered a bomb he was making. The bullets did have some scratches etched on them, possibly a primitive attempt...
...there's nothing left to blow, Anne Spellacy, a registered nurse, tells me to keep blowing. The results are good; the volume of air, known as forced vital capacity (FVC), expelled by my lungs measures 5.16 liters per sec., 109% of what is predicted for a man my age, weight and height. Pulmonary capacity goes down with age, which is why older people tend to get out of breath faster than the young. A typical 30-year-old man of my height and weight would have an FVC of 5.63. Even two years makes a difference; at 50, my number...
Donald Lu, in the sports clinic, would especially stress the importance of weight-bearing exercises--walking, dancing, tennis and weight lifting--that work muscles against gravity as a way to maintain bone strength for women...
Sinatra--this is both his gift and, on occasion, his downfall--is always Sinatra. Beyond his technical prowess as a jazz-influenced pop singer, building on the innovations of Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, there is the sheer force of conviction, feeling, the weight of personal history in his voice. In this, only Holiday is his rival--perhaps even his better. Both exemplify what people in my generation like to flatter ourselves is unique to rock 'n' roll and its offshoots: the immediacy, the idiosyncrasy, the genuineness of expression. Sinatra is the century's musical equipoise, the pivot...
...expect the U.S. to significantly alter its approach to drug busts south of the border despite Mexico's strenuous objections to a recent sting operation, says TIME reporter Stewart Stogel. "The 'Operation Casablanca' sting played well on Capitol Hill, and that will carry more weight than Mexico's objections," says Stogel. Presidents Clinton and Zedillo met for an hour yesterday in a bid to resolve tensions over the operation, in which the Mexican government was kept out of the loop as U.S. agents arrested a number of Mexicans accused of money laundering, and brought them to the U.S. for trial...