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Body Shop
UCSD researchers are working toward the dream of growing replacement body partsGrowing organs and limbs in the lab has long been fodder for sci-fi and horror films. But with increasing public interest and government support for stem cell research, that fantasy is gradually becoming reality…
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Don’t Get SUN-k
Some considerations on the use of sunscreen to block the sun’s enhancing—at times, damning—raysIn 19th century America, tanned skin was the unfashionable mark of outdoor laborers, while today’s golden glow is a symbol of affluence, leisure…and much health policy debate.
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Power Barre
Fitness craze combines the burn of ballet with pull of Pilates“Being a runner, I thought the only cardio that would give me results was pounding the pavement. But this work out burns—you work every muscle group to the point of exhaustion, so you’re sitting there, shaking and sweating, just ready to drop.”
—Angie Nobile, co-owner of Xtend Barre Scripps/Poway -
Ready, Set, Go-Go!
Getting to the bottom of San Diego's most amazing behindsStatuesque bodies may be commonplace in San Diego’s summer clubbing scene, but it takes an extra measure of sweat, discipline and fine-tuning to ascend to the go-go pedestal…
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Sounding the Pavement
Musicians go the extra mile to keep marathoners on their feetIt was sweltering during last year’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon when, on the far side of Fiesta Island, guitarist Chris Warner’s fingers started to bleed.
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Members of the Board
San Diego's surfing elite excel on different wavelengthsThere’s no question—San Diego is a hotbed of professional surfing. Here we go, San Diego, let’s claim ‘em—our hometown’s finest members of the board.
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Shore Thing
Alert, able-bodied lifeguards are keeping San Diego's aquatic playgrounds safe“I’ll never forget how she was gasping for air. One of my first weeks on the bay could have been my first drowning.”
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What A Kick
Beach soccer tourney offers greuling weekend of competitionAnyone can move a ball on grass, but it takes a tougher player, one with insanely high endurance and leg muscles cut from marble, to score a goal on the sand.
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Get Up, Sand Up
Obecians to host inaugural music and sports festivalNothing captures Midwesterners’ view of Southern California quite like Ocean Beach—Hacky Sack-playing hippies; people practicing yoga on the beach; Bob Marley music wafting through the salty, mota-tinged air.
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Going Rover-Board
All paws on deck for a hot-dogging surf eventFearless fidos and their beach-bound owners are hitting the water for another summer of the quintessential test of canine dexterity—dog surfing.
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Permanent Markers
Female tattoo artists create in living colorAs the popularity of indelible ink and the proliferation of tattoo shops peaked over the past couple decades, millions went under the needle. And while sticking it to them used to be the work of men alone, these days, women are in on the action, too.
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Git ‘Er Dune
Local women head to Morocco for an intense, off-road adventureUnlike the romantic backdrop of the 1942 Ingrid Bergman film, Casablanca, the real Morocco is a harsh, dry kingdom of ripping sandstorms, where temperatures in the desert soar into the ridiculous.
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A Diamond in the Rough
The finer side of America's favorite pastimeBaseball consists of little more than a gathering of men who occasionally burst into flurries of action during an otherwise mundane three-hour period of standing, sitting, cursing, chewing, spitting and package adjustment.
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SEALed with an Iron Fist
Extreme fitness course gives civilians a chance to prove their mettle on the beachParticipants spend two-and-a-half hours hoisting 220-pound logs, rowing against tidal currents and being pushed to the limits of their endurance.
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Muscle Car Manor
North County celeb's garage doubles as 'man cave on steroids'Ex-professional wrestler and TV host Bill Goldberg doesn’t worry about his wife banishing him to the garage during disputes.
