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...owners of a real estate company, have turned to physically challenging day trips to stay fit. "Our business has been good, but our stress levels are high," says Zhou, 23. "We've been eating too much and gaining weight. We find we must exercise?otherwise we just can't perform at work." The government is contributing to the cause. In the past two years, it has spent $30 million installing exercise equipment, such as chin-up bars and jogging paths, in 1,100 city parks throughout China...
...labyrinthine plot and convincing design may create a world in which players like to linger, but "Winning is always the final conclusion." The show follows the way action games developed from text games - which describe a scenario and invite you to type in actions for your character to perform - putting the same kind of story into a realistic environment. You may find yourself on Monkey Island and set out to explore it, solving puzzles and following clues. Action games have become ultrasophisticated, with realistic lighting and weather effects. Some take place in vast mazes where it's "70 hours before...
...acid-test day at the Pakistan Military Academy, an event dreaded by every student. For nearly two years, the cadets have learned to run a mile in six minutes, perform endless rounds of sit-ups and push-ups, climb into a boxing ring to battle their fellow junior officers. The Acid Test is the most grueling exercise of all. The academy is in the Himalayan foothills north of Islamabad, but the weather is still brutal: 95[degree]F by midday. First the cadets have to traverse a mountain carrying logs on their shoulders. Then they run nine miles with full...
...There are no human sacrifices at the temple these days. But the mystique of ritual killing is so powerful that even those who actually don't perform it claim to do so. In their camp in the cremation grounds beside the temple, a throng of tantrics tout for business by competing to be as spooky as possible, lining their mud-walled temples with human skulls and telling tall tales of human sacrifice. "I cut off her head," says 64-year-old Baba Swami Vivekanand of a girl he says he raised from birth. "We buried the body and brought...
...team deeply appreciates the funding we get from the Friends of Harvard Rowing and the University and without their generous support I do not think that it would have been possible to have each crew perform as well as it did last weekend,” Riffelmacher continued...