Year: 2010

The usual excuse of “lack of time” for not doing enough exercise is blown away by new research published in The Journal of Physiology.
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Who says physical education classes are a thing of the past? Not at Ozarks Technical Community College.
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Sprott Asset Management LP today announced that the underwriters for the recently completed initial public offering of units of Sprott Physical Gold Trust have purchased an additional 3,000,000 Units in connection with an exercise of their over-allotment option.
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Fort Hood officials have released the name of a soldier who died Tuesday, after collapsing during a morning physical fitness training exercise. The soldier has been identified as 37-year-old First Lieutenant Michael Jue, of Warren, Ohio. Jue, who joined the military in July of 2004, was assigned to the First Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Calvary Division.
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A Warren soldier has died during a training exercise at Fort Hood in Texas. We’re told First Lieutenant Michael Jue died Tuesday after collapsing during a morning physical training on post. The 37-year-old is believed to have had a heart attack. He was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division’s 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the …
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A Warren soldier has died during a training exercise at Fort Hood in Texas. We’re told First Lieutenant Michael Jue died Tuesday after collapsing during a morning physical training on post.
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South Dakotans score poorly for exercise and watching their weight, according to the American Heart Association. State data show 65 percent of South Dakota residents to be overweight or obese. That’s up from 53 percent in 1994. The national rate is 63 percent. About 23 percent of South Dakota’s residents do not take part in any leisure-time physical activity, the state Health Department said …
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The head of Togo’s election commission is acknowledging the machinery used to tabulate votes in the country’s presidential election has failed and is calling on the directors of the country’s 35 voting districts to travel to the capital with the physical proof of the votes cast in their polling stations.
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