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Occasionally, he tacks on a 5-kilometer jog around Singapore's Marina Bay or a stair workout at a nearby stadium.
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Walters had a health scare in January when she suffered a cut on her forehead after falling on a stair while visiting the British ambassador's residence in Washington.
Asimo, by contrast, is an ornate, expensive and complicated piece of machinery that really only seems useful if you need a machine that can climb a stair for you.
They are smaller where there are fireplaces or built-ins, and they are far narrower in the center, where one can just about touch a finger on a stair banister and the other on the far wall.
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"Hong Kong has a stair culture which is typified by a certain slowness and rhythm that has defined a way of life and attitude in the areas of the city with steep topography, " said Melissa Cate Christ, an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong.
"We were in Istanbul for the opening night of a building we recently built and while we were speaking we've been astonished by a spiral stair hanging from a building in front of us, " said Ferlito.
Carved out of the space in the center is an atrium with a spectacular stair.
Twenty feet wide, it is the building's organizing element and circulation spine, connecting the first four floors and continuing upward with bridges across the space and a narrower stair above as it ascends to the structure's full nine-story height.
They include a concert at the Easterbrook Hall in Dumfries, a garden party at Stair Castle in Wigtownshire and a Jubilee Weekend programme in Kirkcudbright.
The effort encouraged people to use the stairs instead of the escalators by making each stair a functioning piano key, so that every step was music in the making.
From the start of the year, AONE has made lower highs and lower lows in a very systematic, stair step manner.
It does what we call stair-step with a series of higher highs and higher lows each day, with a little back and fill.
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Three months before Katrina, she'd had surgery on her knees, but her adrenalin high obscured the fact that constant stair climbing was taking a toll.
The interactive installation Endless Stair takes its inspiration from a drawing by Dutch graphic artist MC Escher.
Stair running has long enjoyed a cult following in Europe and in the U.S., where it has been popularized by the annual clamber up the Empire State Building, which started in 1978.
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The animal hung suspended from a pulley attached to his neighbor's stair railing.
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Later, as a broker, Duffy stood on the top stair of the pit in an exchange-issued red trading jacket and filled orders.
But the Angus outfit knew that, back in 1972, when the two side's last drew 2-2 in the Scottish Cup, they had travelled to Stair Park and returned north with a 2-1 victory under their belts.
Examples include so-called stair-step programs, where dealers get a retroactive bonus per car if they hit a particular sales target.
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Through two financial bubbles and a global financial crisis, non-OECD demand has stair-stepped its way to nearly doubling in less than 20 years.
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It stair-stepped its way lower, and formed a rising wedge that broke on Monday, taking this stock down another 1.35 to 35.53, or 3.6%, on 2.5 million shares.
Heading to your office gym or fitness club to do at least 20 minutes of cardio a few days a week: the elliptical, treadmill, rowing machine, stair master, pool, power plate, or any other form of cardio are all excellent options for getting your workouts done (what you choose to do should depend on your individual condition, body type, and goals).
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She was issued with a prohibition notice concerning the use of an attic room with no stair banisters and limiting the occupation to herself and four others.
The local council said it had recorded a growing number of complaints about some sales tactics for mobility aids, stair lifts and bath aids.
Beneath the two passenger decks of this modified super jumbo is an Air Force One-style air-stair -- allowing access to the tarmac without the need for a sky-bridge or external staircase -- and a crew dining area, crew gallery, crew bathroom, sleeping quarters for eight on bunk beds, a communications room and spiral staircase leading to the main deck.
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