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...error occurred while processing this directive]At the end of a long day of meetings, sometimes the last thing a business traveler wants to do is change into sweats and head down to the hotel gym or tackle the local running trails. But exercise becomes that much harder to shirk with a Travel Trainer ($89.90 from travtrainer.com) beckoning reproachfully from the corner of the room. Perfect for the harried road warrior, this portable exercise kit fits into a 56-cm bag and comprises a fitness ball, exercise mat and resistance bands (pulled taut they form the basis of muscle-building...
...took on the project with the hope--he's way too Zen to make demands--that for the first time in their careers the Dixie Chicks would write all their songs, by themselves and about themselves. As writers they admit they're prone to laziness, like people at a gym who need a personal trainer to force them to concentrate. Gary Louris of the Jayhawks, blues artist Keb' Mo' and Dan Wilson of Semisonic were brought in to co-write and supply discipline, and the band hunkered down in Los Angeles, where Rubin lives, to begin the long and unglamorous...
...announcement represents a stunning achievement for Seif al Islam, a driving force behind the risky venture of reaching out to the West. He has also been an influential - and at times almost solitary - advocate for reform and human rights in Libya. Sitting on a sofa in his private gym, he described frank discussions with his father - "there is a margin for exchanging views" - but reveals the gap is wide...
Over drinks and cigarettes at the Carousel Bar in the French Quarter recently, Keen explained New Orleans by telling the story of a 15-year-old named "Caveman." On April 14, 2003, at 10:30 in the morning, high school football player Jonathan (Caveman) Williams was sitting in his gym class. The gymnasium was packed with kids. Without warning, two men with an AK-47 and a handgun walked into the gym, strode up to Caveman and shot and killed him. They fired at least 18 times, blowing off half his face and pockmarking the floor tiles underneath his body...
Keen's officers went house to house, searching for the killers. They had 150 witnesses in the gym and a dead child on the floor. It was hard to imagine that the case would be a tough one to crack. And yet, Keen says, the officers' questions were met with shrugs and stares. "I asked my sergeant, 'How's it going?'" remembers Keen. "And he said, 'I feel like the Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq. The people in the neighborhoods don't want us here. They don't speak our language. They won't talk...