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...Morrow North Cedar City, Utah, U.S. In the Event of an Emergency In "How To Get Out Alive," you described new research about how people react during emergency evacuations [May 16]. As a world traveler, I always try to figure out, in an unknown environment, how to save my skin in case of a crisis. The risk is always just around the corner if one considers, for example, how many public buildings have their emergency exits locked with chains. I also have an idea for safer airline travel. At present, airlines check to see whether the passengers sitting in exit...
Take care of your skin. One of the most troublesome problems large exercisers face is chafing, especially of the thighs. Minimize the problem by wearing form-fitting clothes, preferably a synthetic fabric that wicks away sweat. When it's time to hit the showers, use antibacterial soap and dry all body folds well...
Married for the first time, in May at age 39, Chrystyna Garrigan, a skin-care consultant from Montclair, N.J., considers herself a pretty modern woman. Smart, independent and cheerfully unconventional, she did not spend her childhood planning the perfect wedding or dreaming of white picket fences...
Then, too, there is the chemistry of fat itself. In most parts of the body, fat is packed on under the skin and over the muscle. But fat around the middle also gets stored beneath muscle. This gut fat is far more metabolically active than peripheral fat, releasing inflammatory molecules that contribute to insulin resistance, diabetes and hypertension. Exercise may be a good idea, but until you lose the beer belly, you may still be putting yourself at risk...
...Spanglish) are songs about debt and God, and a duet with Sarah Buxton that sounds more like Music Row than the Muzik Mafia. The absence of a single social or political lyric leaves the impression that Cowboy Troy may be the obverse of a certain white rapper whose skin is outwardly a comfort to his audience but whose substantive goal is to make that audience uncomfortable. Troy's skin and delivery may jar country traditionalists, but his material will set them at ease. "That's intentional," says Coleman. "I love rap, but my target audience is country. That's where...