Word: couchful
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...ages ago: A sound mind and a sound body," says Dr. Robert Butler, president of the International Longevity Center in New York City. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Arthur Kramer pitted aerobic exercise against weight lifting and toning in 124 very sedentary elderly men and women without dementia--"couch potatoes," as Kramer calls them. Half were assigned to an aerobic-fitness schedule consisting of progressively longer walks; the other half did strength and flexibility exercises...
...seem obvious, but a researcher at Indiana University of Pennsylvania thinks many TV viewers subconsciously register faces they see regularly--even those of actors on the small screen--as friends. Some subjects thought they had a rich social life but may only have been relating well with the couch...
...some point in my early teens, in the confusing years of adolescence, I stopped having friends over. Noah's condition dictated what we ate and when we slept and to a great degree how we lived. We never had fancy furniture because he chewed on the couch cushions and spit on the carpets. He would pull apart anything more complicated than a pencil. I was ashamed of our home and family. Already marked as different by virtue of being Asian American in a predominantly white community, I came to see Noah as an additional stigmatizing mark...
America, there is a war going on in your living room. A war between neighbors. A war between cultures. A war, above all, between your boring overstuffed couch and the crisp, clean lines of modern design...
...COUCH...