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Harry (not his real name), 27, a marketing executive from north London, is a keen sportsman and bodybuilder. He spent hours in the gym, and poring over health pages for muscle-boosting tips. Yet he grew frustrated when his muscle growth appeared to plateau. While many bodybuilders turn to steroids (some 250,000 people are thought to

My scow is tied up in Flushing, NY, alongside the landing stage of the Mac Asphalt and Construction Corporation. It is now just after five in the afternoon. Today at this time it is still afternoon, and the sun, striking the cinderblocks of the main building of the works has turned them pink. The motor

Although this former royal forest is most famous for its beeches, which rise like gigantic organ pipes 30m overhead, we were on the search for bigger quarry. Among this landscape of clay-rooted tree and squirrel and muntjac and white-barred brambling sifting beechmast on the woodland floor, there are a dozen or so quietly cloistered ancient

The first grand slam of the year has been nothing short of a bloodbath for the stars of the documentary Break Point and its proving a smash One by one, they dropped their heads, smashed their rackets. One by one, they slung their bags over their shoulders in defeat, exiting the court in bitter

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a