Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...somewhat disappointed; we started second so we wanted to do well," said heavy weight crew member Daniel Dias...
...months, he was turning the pages of his Dr. Seuss books, already aware that something wonderful was going on. Tyler's parents still read to his brother John, 8. With Ty, they discuss the Tolkien and Asimov books that are his current favorites. "This house could collapse from the weight of books," says his dad Jeff...
...would stay in shape forever, or at least until my 40s. I never counted on my metabolism slowing down. But I've discovered I can't eat as much as I used to without gaining a few pounds, and I have to run farther just to maintain my weight. So when a friend suggested pumping iron as a way to boost my burn rate, I was skeptical (Arnold Schwarzenegger leaped to mind) but curious. After all, the number of women using free weights has doubled, from 7.4 million in 1987 to 16.8 million in 1997. Surely they...
While vanity got me started with weight lifting--or "strength training," as it's called these days--concerns about my health are what will keep me pumping. Men may lift more weight, but weight lifting does more good for women. Studies show that strength training can delay the onset of osteoporosis (a particular problem for women), lower blood pressure, even reduce cholesterol levels. And you don't have to be in your 30s to benefit. "I started working with a 92-year-old woman after she fell and broke her ankle," says Miriam Nelson, an exercise physiologist at Tufts University...
...large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from an enormous obdurate weight to a buoyant structure, free, afloat and adrift. All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory, which has become a recurrent dream." His "awe and wonder" at this sight is recapitulated, more strongly than ever before in his work, in the Torqued Ellipses...