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...women weight watchers, the battle of the bulge is often lost at the hips. No matter how they exercise, excess pounds seem to pile up there and at the buttocks and thighs. But at last there seems to be some compensation for the pear-shaped. (No, not another grapefruit diet.) According to Dr. Ahmed Kissebah of the Medical College of Wisconsin, overweight women whose body fat is concentrated below the waist run a relatively low risk of contracting diabetes, a frequently serious disease that disrupts the normal metabolism of sugar into energy and afflicts one out of 20 Americans. Conversely...
...them back into the air. It was decided that on the easy first "rack," or skill level (some games have as many as 20 racks), the clown would get rid of balloons by popping them with a spike on his hat. But on the second level, the balloons would pile up on his head, so that successive balloons would have a shorter distance to fall from the top of the screen, and the clown would have to pedal faster to get to them. To identify racks as the game progressed, additional falling objects were introduced?flowers, hats and beach balls...
...days in Oxford as golden, halcyon." The most expensive TV production ever to come from Britain (about $9.9 million), Brideshead Revisited has a cast that includes John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Mona Washbourne, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and Diana Quick. Not to mention, of course, that wonderful baroque pile called Castle Howard, which may indeed be the very louse the author saw in his mind when he described the fictional Brideshead, first glimpsed on a cloudless day in June, "prone in the sunlight, gray and gold amid a screen of boskage...
...least amount of inane graffiti. There's wonderful choice of messages over there"--he gestures to Kyriazis's stall--"and over here is a long discussion of Radcliffe women." But why this particular row of desks--Harvard has more than 100 libraries? Driscoll looks up from the pile of cards and papers and books in front of him--an Ec 1550 term paper-to-be. "Because it's subterranean," he says quietly...
...played a significnt role in Marianne Asaro's choice of a place to study: a long, fluorescent-lit room in the basement of Cabot Library. She has staked out a corner of the room for herself, and covered it with her belongings: notes for a Biochem 10 paper, a pile of textbooks, and a little tin ashtray with six cigarette butts. "Of all the places where you can study and get comfortable," she says, "This is just about the only one where you can smoke...