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Dec 29th 2012, 08:12

The fitness wake-up call can be a powerful catalyst for change. For Matthew Richter-Sand, it came during a flight home to see his family. When the flight hit some turbulence, the 30-year-old felt his belly fat bouncing up and down along with the plane. "I was so disgusted; (being obese) wasn't me," said Richter-Sand of Los Angeles. "Right then and there, I swore to change." Establishing new fitness habits isn't easy, but as Richter-Sand quickly learned, it's the key to success. Habits - unlike resolutions - last. The behaviors become wired so deeply into our brains that they occur without thinking, possibly freeing up the old noodle for other matters. And though habits take longer to...

Dec 29th 2012, 08:15

Email Print Order Reprint Share This Text tool name tool goes here By DANIELLE BRAFF - Chicago Tribune By DANIELLE BRAFF Chicago Tribune The first thing the Rockettes are known for are their incredible synchronized high kicks. The second thing they're known for are the way their legs look when they do those kicks. Countless hours of practice, rehearsals and performing (sometimes up to four shows a day) leave these ladies in tip-top shape. Take some cues from Stacy Paydo, a Los Angeles-based Rockette, who created a fusion workout of ballet, Pilates and yoga that'll get you on the way to the famed Rockette legs (if you run through this set of exercises enough times, that is)....

Dec 29th 2012, 08:39

Islamabad: Pakistan Defence Secretary, Lt Gen (retd) Asif Yaseen Malik has claimed the United States and Britain were both opposed to country's nuclear programme, and added that...

Dec 29th 2012, 08:12

The premier, now in a caretaker role, will be represented in February voting. Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press Posted: Saturday, December 29, 2012, 3:01 AM ROME - Italian Premier Mario Monti announced Friday that he is heading a new campaign coalition made of up centrists, business leaders, and pro-Vatican forces who back his "ethical" vision of politics, aiming for a second mandate in office if his fledging reform movement wins big in parliamentary elections. After a four-hour huddle with his supporters, Monti ended weeks of speculation at home and abroad about whether the internationally respected economist, who was appointed to head a nonelected government a year ago, would...

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Dec 29th 2012, 08:12

BERLIN - Germany plans to launch a mammoth trial this spring over a racist killing spree by a neo-Nazi terror cell that claimed 10 lives and shocked the nation. The execution-style killings of Turkish and Greek men and a policewoman have been blamed on a trio of far-right militants who called themselves the National Socialist Underground. Its two male gunmen died in 2011 in an apparent murder-suicide after they were cornered by police following a bank robbery, but their alleged female accomplice is in custody and awaiting trial.Advertisement The murder spree has sparked deep soul-searching in a nation still struggling with the dark memory of its Nazi past, and Chancellor Angela Merkel has...

Dec 29th 2012, 08:29

Paper Edition | Page: 5 Check out our wad: Police officers present evidence confiscated from robbers of a gold store in Ciputat, South Tangerang, in a file photo taken on March 12. Jakarta Police released their annual end-of-year crime report, announcing that the crime rate in the Greater Jakarta had decreased by 4.56 percent this year. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama The number of crimes in the city may be decreasing, but crimes triggered by economic motives throughout 2012 will likely continue to top Jakarta's crime trend next year as people are still facing hardships in earning a decent living, a criminologist says....

Dec 29th 2012, 09:00

Shocked Indians are mourning the death of a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago in an ordeal that galvanized people to demand greater protection for women from sexual violence. Mourners began gathering at Jantar Mantar in the capital on Saturday to express their grief and demand stronger protection for women and the death penalty for rape, which is now punishable by a maximum of life imprisonment. Dozens of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in south Delhi marched silently to the bus stop from where the rape victim and her friend had boarded the bus on December 16. They carried placards reading "She is...

Dec 29th 2012, 08:19

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