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...doing double exercise. Well, this is something that I do. Not realistic for the average person. I'll run in the morning and then I'll do my resistance training at night. On days like today when I can't get it in, I know that I did two yesterday...
...over the past two weeks, fears over H1N1 have cooled considerably, as the virus has failed to spread easily outside North America and the number of deaths from the disease has remained low, leaving the WHO fending off critics who questioned whether the international agency overreacted. "We know that we are seeing things change on an almost daily basis," said Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim director for health, safety and the environment. "It is still a confusing situation." (See pictures as the swine flu hit Mexico...
...judge from recent photos, is not bargaining from strength. Self-preservation is the name of its game. The leading decision-making body that Kim heads, the National Defense Commission, is filled with generals who most assuredly want to demonstrate that the regime still has muscle. These are people who know that war means their demise, whereas a bargain with the U.S., while it would require stopping nuclear-weapon and missile production, would give the regime legitimacy. It might also spare them from having to give up the six to 10 plutonium bombs they evidently have...
...gaffes? The majority of Italians think Berlusconi just speaks his mind, and they don't care if foreigners are puzzled, or worse. Some remarks are unforgivable, of course. Obama's suntan, jokes about concentration camps, sexist comments. If you head a government you must know that your words - reported instantly, compressed into sound bites - can baffle foreigners. Italians abroad know this. They complain, rightly, that Berlusconi's faux pas allow those who don't like Italy to ridicule us, ignoring the good things we do around the world...
...imagine him as one of the last guests at someone else's 70th-birthday party, sitting at a table that's been cleared except for the wine stains and bread crumbs. He's wearing a bolo tie and his scraggly mustache, telling stories about women he used to know but never cared for all that much...