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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine. The first model looked like a three-step escalator, and the steps revolved like a treadmill. But people found it hard to keep up with the machine, and only the superfit mastered it. In 1986 StairMaster introduced the 4000 PT, which was simpler to use. Exercisers push a pair of bicycle-like pedals that move up and down instead of in circles, and a computerized screen gives such data as the number of "flights" climbed and the "distance" traveled. Fans say they can burn off 10% more calories on stair machines than on stationary bicycles, and the step climbers...
MacDonald, who has been playing with a team in Lugano, Switzerland since early October, made the decision after suffering a pair of injuries in recent weeks that intensified a head-injury problem which has plagued him since high school...
...interviews this week with officials at Harvard, and in the U.S. and El Salvador, a picture has evolved that links the University to Jesuits Segundo Montes and Ignacio Martin-Baro. The pair, who were highly placed scholars within the embattled Jesuit academy Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas in San Salvador (UCA), worked at promoting their cause within Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and a Harvard-based international scholars program...
...increase awareness, participants said, would be to host lectures at high schools for students and their parents or pair members of Jewish and Arab-American communities. They added that both groups should jointly lobby the U.S. government to redefine its aid to Israel...
...least half a dozen firms are selling antinoise systems in the U.S. and Europe. A pair of British firms, Racal Acoustics and Plessey, sell antinoise headphones that combat cockpit noise in military vehicles, such as the Sea King helicopter and the Warrior attack vehicle. Digisonix, a division of Nelson Industries in Stoughton, Wis., markets units that can be bolted to air ducts to mute the blast of industrial fans and heating and air-conditioning systems. Noise Cancellation Technologies of New York City just announced a joint venture with Tenneco to make electronic mufflers for automobiles and light trucks that...