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Aerobics teacher lures key meet Regional championship coming to Pembroke club is seen as a showcase
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PEMBROKE -- They should call it Survival of the Fittest.
Nonetheless, it is a sport everyone can compete in and enjoy.
It is aerobics, and the Amateur Athletic Union Regional Aerobic
Championship is being held Saturday at the USA Health & Fitness
Center on Oak Street in Pembroke.
If Debbie Burns of the aerobics club had not bumped into Nancy
Bell of the AAU, it would not be happening.
"She came in here one day, and we struck up a conversation about
competitive aerobi...
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Burns' next step: Springfield
Chicago Sun-Times
; James B. Burns, the U.S. attorney for Northern Illinois, is planning to step down to become a Democratic candidate for governor. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) had offered to recommend Burns for another four-year appointment as federal prosecutor. If Burns had accepted, he would have been the
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NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN EMERGING ARTIST ; Tootie Burns
Columbia Daily Tribune
; When Tootie Burns trains her mind's eye on her neighbor's curb- side refuse, she sees possibilities. She made the mirror hanging over her fireplace with donated wood and cut squares of colorful soda cans collected from the recycling sacks of her neighbors. "There's about a thousand nails in there,
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No ordinary lives; Ken Burns's new documentary humanizes World War II
Concord Monitor
; Ken Burns doesn't shy away from big subjects. The Civil War, jazz, baseball, the American West: He's tackled them all. Burns's upcoming documentary on the American experience of World War II is no exception. But beneath the grand, ambitious subject are people, each of whom experienced the war as
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'Myners did the job' As Lord Burns, the chairman-elect of M&S, defends his predecessor, James Hall looks at the problems Burns will inherit
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Even Lord Burns, the chairman-elect of Marks & Spencer, the retailer, says that the process of appointing him to the position was "a bit messy'' - which shows that this former head of the Treasury has not lost his mandarin's gift for understatement. Last week, after an unedifying boardroom spat
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OBITUARY: Tom Burns
The Independent - London
; Tom Burns, the Roman Catholic publisher and editor of the Catholic weekly the Tablet from 1967 to 1982, was an influential figure on the Catholic scene in Britain. The Catholic faith was the foundation of his life, the backdrop for everything he did. His confidence in the Church supported him when,
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GENE BURNS HEADS FOR THE BIG TIME Taking a call from New York
The Boston Globe
; ... until 6 p.m. . . . Walk home, watch the evening news, have a bite to eat . . . go to bed by 9 p.m ... a great radio voice and offered Burns a job as news director. "But I've never been a news director!" Burns protested. Without missing a beat ...
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Obituary: Ralph Burns
The Independent - London
; THE PIANIST Ralph Burns was the lynchpin of the Woody Herman First Herd of 1945. His writings for that band thrust him with it to the forefront of the musical exhilaration that came with the end of the Second World War. Recordings like "Northwest Passage", "Apple Honey" and "Caldonia" burned
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Going to 'War': Ken Burns' massive documentary personalizes World War II
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ... means ignore the war itself. Only about a quarter of the documentary covers the homefront, and the narrative -- complete with maps, facts and figures -- follows the various battles on the various fronts. "The War" doesn't glorify war in general or the Second ...
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Epidemiology of burns in a teaching hospital in south India
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; Introduction Despite many medical advances, burns continue to remain a challenging problem due to the lack of infrastructure and trained professionals as well as the increased cost of treatment, all of which have an impact on the outcome. Previous epidemiological studies from different parts of
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