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That doesn't mean you should give up on your stomach muscles. Strong abdominals are good for you. They pull the pelvis up, which helps prevent pain by reducing the sway of the lower back. "Lower-back injury is one of the top problems in the country, and abdominal weakness is a huge contributing factor," says Miriam Nelson, an exercise physiologist at Tufts University in Boston. "We sit all day, and then if we go to the gym, most people focus on the biceps instead of the core muscles...
...manly sense of yourself (He jumps! He shoots! He scores!), but now, taking a slow postoperative stroll down the hall, heading for the lounge with the jigsaw puzzles, you catch a glimpse of yourself in the glass door ahead, a shambling galoot in droopy, pee-stained pajamas. (When they pull out the catheter, it takes you a day or two to get your sphincter reset.) This is not a guy whom any woman longs to have sex with; she would be afraid of killing the old bugger. It's hard for a man with a strong sense of himself...
...Base, neon signs flicker on as servicemen begin to congregate, poking around in the clothing stores, buying yakitori on sticks from street vendors and horsing around. Some of the men later make their way to the dance clubs, others to the billiard bars. As midnight approaches, carloads of women pull into the parking lots nearby. They fix their lipstick in the rearview mirrors and tease out their hair as if according to some military instruction manual. It's as if they're going into battle...
...also sitting in the section where a semi-famous vendor named Perry sells beer. Perry sells beer fast and opens it even faster; he’s got an electric bottle opener (based on an electric screwdriver) that whirrs enticingly, and he makes it a spectator sport. People pull out their wallets just to get a close-up of the damn thing. He should sell that thing at colleges—he’d be set for life...
...military readiness their issue. Even Hillary Clinton can be heard harping on the trade-offs between Bush?s tax cuts and his Pentagon budget, and when a Clinton - any Clinton - and a Daschle start threatening to pick up votes on a military issue, Bush knows it?s time to pull his political neck out of harm...