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...with youngsters weaving around each other, diving and springing out like seals, practicing their strokes. It could be any public pool on a warm summer's evening, until you notice first that nobody is bumping into anyone else; and second, that everything is happening at a little over twice normal speed. The giant screens at each end of the pool announce the warm-up session will end in 15 minutes, and it dawns on the ignorant spectator that this is how Olympic swimmers loosen up before a race: not with a couple of lazy stretches, but with a few hundred...
...folk who struggle with weight. It's becoming increasingly clear that even modest weight loss?even as little as 5%?can lead to real improvements in your health. The more you lose?and keep off?the better. But you don't have to get all the way back to normal weight. Most of us will never see a model-slim figure in the mirror. But we can all lead healthier lives...
...images of carrying the rafts down paths on the river bank, the reality in this boulder-strewn obstacle course is vastly different. It takes us two long days to traverse the gorge, from which we emerge bruised, tired and electrified. It's here that we truly slough off our normal lives; we might be journalists, public servants and businessmen out there, but in here we're hopelessly mortal, relying on our guides, ourselves and our next slippery foothold to get us through. Pat and our other guide, Dan, warn us that a fall here almost certainly means death, even...
...folk who struggle with weight. It's becoming increasingly clear that even modest weight loss - even as little as 5% - can lead to real improvements in your health. The more you lose - and keep off - the better. But you don't have to get all the way back to normal weight. Most of us will never see a model-slim figure in the mirror. But we can all lead healthier lives...
...apparent suicide; in New York City. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson later said she went to Vietnam because "they ran out of men." She focused on personal stories of the war, including tales of soldiers dying, which affected her deeply. "It all becomes normal, the other correspondents, men, would say. In time you'll see," she wrote. "They lied." Suffering from Parkinson's disease, she left behind a self-penned obituary...