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Spend enough time at a health club or gym these days, and you're bound to overhear someone discussing core strength. The idea behind this new exercise buzz word is that the muscles surrounding your trunk--the ones that help you breathe and hold up your spine--need to be every bit as strong as your biceps or quadriceps. Indeed, says Wendell Liemohn, an exercise scientist at the University of Tennessee, "if you don't have a strong core, then moving your arms and legs won't be as efficient...
MADRID—Strolling around Spain, it is not uncommon to overhear jokes like these...
...Miriam Goldberg sips coffee and discusses her opposition to Harvard expansion, other patrons of Broadway Espresso overhear her and spontaneously voice their agreement...
...Outside the ballroom there are a panoply of TV crews. I wander around and see Robert Wuhl, the star of HBO's "Arli$$," being interviewed by one of the crews. Elsewhere I overhear young actressy types being urged by boyfriends and/or publicists to thrust themselves before the cameras. To my surprise I spot the prince of Belgium now working with his TV producer pal as an interviewer. "I thought he was the prince of Belgium," I ask Steve Taylor. "Yuh, he is. He just likes interviewing people too." Since Britain's current generation of royals includes media-hounds such...
...Sunday after our national day of thanks, my Delta Shuttle taxis around LaGuardia Airport like a cat without a home. I can't help but overhear the conversation that a few college girls are having behind me. There is endless chatter about who had sex with the totally plastered 6'5" ubermensch last weekend. The utter joys of one of the busiest travel days in the United States...