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...unemployed, her once promising children are bugging on mushrooms and even the dreamy Koizumi looks likely to leave her at the economic altar. How does she respond? By taking her destiny in two petite hands and yanking?hard. Tug-of-war, the sport of ancient warriors and sadistic gym teachers, is enjoying a renaissance around the world. An Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920, there is strong sentiment to bring tugging back to the Games. That would be welcome news in bored and poor Japan, where 3,000 teams are on the pull. None yanks harder than a band...
...grew up in the gym,” Merchant says. “My dad was my coach in high school—he was my coach my entire life. He’d bring me to the gym when he had practices and I’d shoot on the side. Basketball is what I grew up with—it’s what I love...
...baby can enliven even the blandest of people. "They have been so formal and subdued, they created a huge gap between the average Japanese and the royal family, which drove people to stop caring," says 34-year-old Toshiaki Ozeki, a gym instructor. But Ozeki is a royal convert now. Masako's miscarriage two years ago, Naruhito's obvious anger with the way the news media treated the tragedy and Saturday's successful birth all served to make the royals seem more human, more like Ozeki and his girlfriend, who cope day in and day out with life...
There were reports of marriage proposals being made, divorces being called off, young singles hitting the bars in search of physical comfort - "terror sex" it was quickly dubbed - and people who had religiously gone to the gym each day and devoted themselves to low-fat, high-protein diets deciding to re-embrace the sybaritic pleasures of chocolate. Across the Atlantic, however, where the threat of terrorism has been a way of life for decades and where lunch in a Tel Aviv pizza parlor or a night out in a London pub can quickly turn deadly, the impact has been more...
...built and repaved and surround-sound theaters popped up everywhere. Growth rates and standard of living figures began approaching those in western Europe. A long break in large-scale suicide attacks beginning in the middle of 1996 allowed many Israelis to believe that they were safe going to the gym after work, visiting Internet cafes and reading about other people’s problems in the newspapers...