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...there are more of them, pairs upper-cutting and right-hooking, more arriving at the gym and sliding mitts and gloves onto their hands. Andre M. Pentalver ’06 winds a long strand of yellow tape around his fingers. The action is instinctive and Pentalver can’t quite place the logic behind it. Scott Valez ’05 swoops in and says, “For our knuckles. Otherwise these things will get fucking chafed. It also absorbs some of the sweat, the moisture...
...once again, these are not considerations that most politicians and prudish public health missionaries have taken because this ban is not really about helping bar employees but about enforcing a way of life. A certain group of people, whether they be Starbucks swilling gym-junkie yuppies or the spiritual heirs of 1920s Prohibitionists, would like to see smoking banished from their gated kingdom. Their hand has been tipped by the most notorious of their lot, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has repeatedly called smokers “stupid” and “crazy...
...once again, these are not considerations that most politicians and prudish public health missionaries have taken because this ban is not really about helping bar employees but about enforcing a way of life. A certain group of people, whether they be Starbucks swilling gym-junkie yuppies or the spiritual heirs of 1920s Prohibitionists, would like to see smoking banished from their gated kingdom. Their hand has been tipped by the most notorious of their lot, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has repeatedly called smokers “stupid” and “crazy...
Gray is almost embarrassed to divulge that the Rhode Island board provides her with twice-weekly personal training sessions. The traveling companion that the Miss America organization provides to every contestant accompanies her on every gym visit and watches her work out, she adds...
...came into the gym on a day when there was no one else but two brand-new members there and coach was showing them the usual exercises,” recalled Allison J. Porter ’02. “But when he started doing push-ups, I looked over and realized that he was doing them on his knuckles. He was 92 at the time. Most young people I know don’t do push-ups at all, let along knuckle push-ups. I was inspired and amazed...