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Since the Pilates program is low impact and does not put undue strain on weight-bearing joints, it is a boon for people over 50. As developed by Joseph Pilates, a German physical therapist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S., the exercises were done on a spring contraption he designed. Modern studios use machines with spring mechanisms adapted from his original apparatus. The classes can be expensive; one-on-one sessions are in the $50-to-$60-an-hour range. A less costly technique based on Pilates' methods can be done on the floor using a mat. The multitude...
...ideas can falter on just six votes. Speaker-elect Bob Livingston and his team are promising tax cuts, more money for defense and a new way of bookkeeping that will do away with the accounting trick of using Social Security money to mask budget deficits. Enacting such a bold program while keeping the budget balanced will mean pinching funds that pay for programs to which voters seem attached, such as low-income home-energy assistance and environmental enforcement. Moderates within the G.O.P. are likely to use their increased leverage to block major cuts in those areas. Democrats will be happy...
...addition, $47 million--a disproportionate amount--of the state's five-year capital-improvement program was set aside for Texas County for highway work to accommodate Seaboard truck convoys, which in time would haul 10,000 hogs a day into Guymon from all directions...
...result, they say, Microsoft has a big edge in selling lucrative word-processing, finance and other software to users of Windows, which runs more than 90% of the world's personal computers. The court could supervise the sharing of Microsoft's codes--known in techspeak as application-program interfaces, or APIs--and thereby ensure a level playing field for all programmers who want to write for Windows. Not surprisingly, Microsoft sees no such need. "Our applications are successful because they are better products, not because there is a cheat sheet," says Tod Nielsen, the company's general manager of developer...
That newfound freedom springs from the magic of the silicon chip. Animation is a torturous process; a typical artist draws just three seconds of film a week. By automating tasks that once had to be endlessly repeated by hand (one Pixar program instantly covers a creature's body with pockmarks), computers cut that time dramatically. Such efficiencies haven't yet made animated films much cheaper, of course; actually producing movies for less money would violate the laws of Hollywood physics. "The cost for visual images comes down every year," says Carl Rosendahl, president of Pacific Data Images, which did effects...