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...them, it was through the normal ticketing agencies, through the HAA,” said Eliot D. Hawkins ’54, the president of the Fly during the 1953-54 academic year...
...security situation is just impossible. The United Nations is not the United Nations if the doors are not open and if you cannot walk in the streets. If I might say so, what I have is the capability of walking in the streets and talking to people. Under normal circumstances, this is what I bring. The fact that I'm from this part of the world, and the fact that I know this part of the world and have lived around here and worked around here for the past 40 years--that is all gone...
What they are finding is an exquisitely fine-tuned system of chemical and neurological checks and balances that regulates both what we eat and how much our bodies store as fat. The average American consumes about 1 million calories a year--and, under normal circumstances, burns almost exactly that amount. The body achieves that balance by automatically increasing or decreasing the efficiency with which it performs various tasks, thus consuming fewer or more calories. (Most of the calories we expend are used to breathe, maintain body temperature, keep the brain chugging along, etc. Depending on how much you move, physical...
...human body is designed to eat, and eating stops under normal circumstances only when the body senses it has enough energy for its immediate needs and enough stored away for future tasks. "It's hard to lose weight because the body wants to gain it back," says Kaplan. "In a competition between willpower and the body, the body always wins...
...more successful at losing weight than people on diets because they have managed to throw this basic drive to eat into reverse. Through sheer force of will, anorexics convince their body that it doesn't need food. "Anorexics are able to do things that are clearly beyond what a normal person is capable of doing," says Kaplan. "Theirs is extreme behavior often driven by an inappropriate and distorted body image...