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Join now Friday, March 31, 2006 Home About Us Advertise Syndicate Archives Forum Classifieds Subscribe Contact us Search Search Criteria Author Keyword Date Advanced Search Daily Star Sections Middle-East Lebanon Middle-East News Politics Business Editorial Opinion Arts & Culture Special Reports Interviews Readers' Letters Today's Cartoons Site Services Registration PDF version Digital Edition Classifieds RSS Feeds Add DS Headlines Feeding on a passion for love and language Hoda Barakat's newly translated novel tackles mental breakdown alongside the disintegration of the state By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Daily Star staff Saturday, April 01, 2006 BEIRUT: A gay man stumbles through wartime Beirut, mourning the loss of a lover.

He loses his bearings, both mental and physical, and is briefly, abruptly transformed from a peaceful, listless noncombatant into a violent, aggressive militiaman.

Another young man wanders disastrously into the no man's land of the city center, where he is trapped and preyed upon by wild dogs.

He finds his father's old fabric shop and, like Scheherazade with her gender in reverse, he begins to tell tales about his childhood love for a Kurdish maid, using the to...

...If it wasn’t for society, weight-loss wouldn’t be an issue.

Computers, office jobs, and a fast-paced society have turned Americans into lazy, overweight people.

Obesity levels are at an all-time high and I am here to tell you that the excuses have to stop.

Excuses need to be tossed out of your mind.

The only reason people don’t lose weight is because they’re too lazy to do so.

You know how I know this?

I was among the lazy and overweight people who made excuse after excuse to avoid exercise!

I have first-hand experience and knowledge.

Now I am sympathetic to the “not enough hours in the day theory.” It is a real problem.

That’s where you are going to have to get creative.

I don’t care what anyone says, the hours of the day can be manipulated.

Spend 30 minutes less putting your makeup on, people.

Get up one hour earlier each morning or go to sleep one hour later each night.

Record American Idol (Go Taylor and Kelly!

) and watch it later.

Use that hour to work out.

It can be done.

How do I know this?

I do it.

I have 60 hours of television recorded currently that I catch up with a little at a time on the weekends.

Hmm… weekends.

There’s a concept.

There should be no excuses on the weekends.

You should be open to working out, walking, riding a bicycle, or anything to get active on the weekend.

There aren’t any good TV shows on the weekend, except for sports.

It’s ...

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