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...serious adversary for soldiers. In addition to the risk of diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, carrying extra pounds can make it more difficult for soldiers to scale walls or scramble out of foxholes. Unlike civilians, GIs must meet periodic weight requirements--or they can be canned. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Pick up a chunk of uranium ore (a low-yield variety, please, and don't hold it for long), and you will be surprised by its weight. Uranium is denser than lead. McArthur River ore is a glossy black that gleams like marble. It's easy to imagine the radioactive energy stored in this rock. Whatever your environmental stance, at McArthur River you can sense the elemental power of uranium, a clean-burning source of seemingly limitless electricity. And you can understand former Cameco CEO Bernard Michel's assessment: "The world is seeing a fresh start for nuclear power...
There are athletic facilities in every House, though they aren’t always adequate. Some houses, such as Leverett House, provide their residents with a good alternative to trudging over to the MAC with exercise bikes, treadmills and weight sets. I, however, recently stumbled upon the Winthrop House “gym,” which sadly consists of a forlorn and forgotten dumbbell in the corner of a basement used for student storage...
...renovations will require large-scale planning, construction and inconveniences. For their part, Houses need to do more than maintain aging and unsatisfactory equipment in their athletic facilities. If they replace the rusted weights and gasping treadmills with some elliptical machines and multi-purpose weight benches, empty House gyms would no longer be so pathetic...
This ability to win while wrestling up a weight class seems to be common among Harvard Joneses...