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...shallow breathing after the 50-m turn didn't allow him to maintain enough oxygen to keep his muscles from tiring. In February Mintenko tried out a device, made by Houston-based PowerLung, that looks like a glorified asthma inhaler. It forces the user to work harder to pull air in and push it out. After using the PowerLung for a week, Mintenko began to see an improvement in his oxygen capacity...
Then comes the best part--the dance. Maybe he'll snatch the pole back and ride it like a cowboy. Or he'll do the funky chicken. He might pull out the robot--"It's a classic," he says, laughing. "You get this reaction from the people, like 'Oh, my God, he's doing the robot.'" Some purists aren't smiling, labeling Stevenson a showboat. But he says his antics are what the vault needs. "I'm just having a great time," says the Stanford economics grad, who plans to start his own business. "I'm not taunting anyone. This...
...full of logical inconsistencies and does not have quite enough completely compelling incidents to sustain its considerable length. But against these complaints you have to set the linear minimalism of its structure and its blessedly low-tech manner. This is a movie where the cops interrupt the action to pull over the cab for a minor infraction; where, best of all, LOW BATT starts flashing on the cell phone at a crucial moment. In other words, this is a movie that manages somehow to fuse ordinary reality and more or less believable fantasy in a very insinuating way. --By Richard...
...house 1,000 people who would present a tempting target to insurgents, a massive car bomb in Baqubah killed 70 people?the worst attack since the June 28 handover. Insurgents also kidnapped a fresh batch of captives, leading some foreign companies taking part in the country's reconstruction to pull their workers...
EDWARDS: My guess is our advice is the same, which is be true to yourself. They'll get advice to do something or say something that's not natural to them, and I'll pull them aside and say, "This doesn't sound like...