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Of course, packing on the pounds is no way to stay healthy over the long run. But you can dodge your body's natural tendencies. For starters, you can stop beating yourself up over your eating habits. "Eating is not evil," says Martin Binks, director of health psychology for the...
Howard’s expertise in botany proved useful during World War II. Serving in the Army, Howard produced survival manuals that taught soldiers downed in the Pacific to live off the land in extreme conditions.
This is where Narcissus was valuable. He still sees Athens as influential with Rome—almost as its cultural and political mentor. Rubbish, of course, but an illusion which was seen as useful by Nuntius and his advisers. Dazzled by the power of Rome, Narcissus was persuaded to join...
We should, however, look after our useful friends, like Narcissus. I am sure that he would be immensely popular, together with his wife Livia, at the senatorial villas, and at the reading of poetry in the circus. He will not, I fear, last long in Athens if left to his...
Certainly ex-Dean Lewis’ concerns about safety have some validity; I am not quite hedonist enough to want sacrifice safety in favor of atmosphere. I do think, though, that the ban on fires is an overreaction, and I know that the emptied fireplaces suggest an unfortunate metaphor. Last...