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Today's busy manager is likely to feel there aren't enough minutes in the day, according to a survey by Robert Half International Inc., a worldwide staffing service specializing in the accounting, finance, and information technology fields. Executives polled from the nation's 1,000 largest companies indicated that, on average, they work 54 hours a week, and 36% said that their time spent on the job has increased compared to five years ago.

Thin teenage girls wearing adult makeup and posing suggestively for advertisements in print or on TV glamorize unhealthy bodies and attitudes, maintains David Waller, associate professor of psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He suggests that parents be alert to any sign their daughter may be developing an eating disorder, such as an obsession with food and/or exercise, wearing clothing that disguises the body, spending less time with friends and on formerly enjoyed pastimes, frequent trips to the bathroom, especially after meals, dieting, and change in sleep patterns.

People who participate in weight-training routines benefit more from multi-set programs as compared to one-set workouts, notes William Kraemer, director of the Human Performance Laboratory, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. The key factor for building strength and stamina is intensity of the workout.

Eating a low-fat snack after classes improves the total nutritional quality of elementary pupils' diets, researchers from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, suggest. The U.S...