Body

Have you been overindulging this holiday season? It's not yet New Year's but maybe it's time to start thinking about working off the gravy and pumpkin pie. There are plenty of new DVDs that can step, dance and bend you into shape. Here are some aerobics, yoga and pilates videos we found: 1. Bollywood Burn with Hemalayaa Price: $14.99 Where to get it: acaciacatalog.com or pre-order on Amazon.com. Jan. 1, it will be available at Barnes & Noble in the Inner Harbor and elsewhere. 410-385-1709 Why we like it: This is your chance to bring out your inner Bollywood star.

A dry mouth, creaky knees and muscle soreness that lasts for three days. These are signs the body wasn't meant to run a marathon, said Dr. John Senatore, chief of podiatry and a sports medicine physician at Union Memorial Hospital. That may be affirmation for couch potatoes, but the number of marathons and the number of people willing to run 26.2 miles keep growing. About 410,000 people finished one of about 300 U.S. marathons last year, up from 25,000 three decades earlier, according to Running USA, a group that promotes fitness and tracks trends.

Residents of a southern Anne Arundel County community woke up yesterday to police officers searching for clues in the death of a man found on a side street. County police described the man's injuries as "apparent trauma to the upper body." "I've been here for more than 19 years, and I've never seen anything like this," said Dick Iannucci, a resident in the Harwood neighborhood where the body was found about 2 a.m. Cpl. Sara Schriver, a police spokeswoman, said the body was found on Richardson Drive, a narrow, dead-end street in an area dotted with horse farms and homes assessed at more than $500,000 each in county records.

Body of Work Christine Montross Penguin Press / 304 pages / $24.95 Of all the harrowing experiences that are a part of medical training, perhaps the most affecting is that of gross anatomy. No surprise, then, that the dissection of the human body attracts so many attempts at explication. Irresistible storytelling opportunities abound: The opening of the cranium is a metaphor for the opening of the medical student's mind to new ways of understanding the body; the dismemberment of a cadaver is an ironic comment on the disassociation students experience in becoming healers; and the cadaver itself is the ultimate paradox, at once the sacred vessel of our humanness and a lifeless object wrapped in plastic trash bags to keep it moist.

Worcester County : Assateaugue Body in surf could be Morgan student The body of a young man recovered in the surf off Assateague Island National Park might be that of Lij-Paul Headley, a 19-year-old Morgan State University student who apparently drowned in Ocean City on June 17, police said yesterday. Pfc. Barry Neeb, an Ocean City police spokesman, said his department was notified by U.S. park rangers that the body had been recovered about five miles south of the ranger station. It was that of a young black man, Neeb said.

Exercising al fresco is one of the great pleasures of summertime. But heat waves and humidity can turn a refreshing long run into a sweat-drenched experiment in heat exhaustion. Overheating causes fatigue and dizziness. That's annoying enough. As internal temperatures rise above 100 degrees, athletes may experience cramps, headaches, nausea and vomiting. By the time core temperatures reach 104, the body rebels from hyperthermia. If the athlete keeps pushing and internal temperatures pass 104 degrees, the athlete risks "organ failure and death from heat stroke," says Dr. Aurelia Nattiv, professor in UCLA's Department of Family Medicine, Division of Sports Medicine.

A body found almost a month ago near a Woodlawn apartment complex's playground might be that of a Hispanic teen-ager, police said Friday. They have readied fliers, asking for help in Spanish, for distribution in the city and county.The identity of the young woman, whose age is estimated at 19 or younger, is not known, nor is how she died, said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey."They still have not come up with cause or time of death," he said.Police hope the fliers, which were translated by Maria Cumming, a Puerto Rican native who lives in Towson, will bring forward someone who knows the woman.

A man's body apparently was dumped from a vehicle at Joppa Road and Perring Parkway, west of Carney, late last night, Baltimore County police said.Police communications received a call about 11: 15 p.m. that the body of a middle-aged man apparently had been thrown from a vehicle. Paramedics who went to the scene pronounced the victim dead of a gunshot wound to the head, police said.No other details were immediately available.Pub Date: 9/30/99

Anne Arundel County police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found yesterday afternoon amid flattened stalks in a cornfield near rural Waysons Corner.Police said the unidentified man appeared to have been the victim of a homicide, but would not disclose whether there were wounds apparent on the body -- spotted by a passer-by driving in the area along Plummer Lane, who called the authorities about 12: 25 p.m."The driver got out of the vehicle and walked into the field and found what appeared to be a body," said Lt. Jeff Kelly, a county police spokesman.

The Aberdeen Police Department and Harford County Sheriff's Office are investigating the death of an unidentified man, whose body was found early yesterday in the parking lot of the Getty Mart convenience store at West Bel Air and Mount Royal avenues.Police said they were awaiting a report from the state medical examiner's office on the cause and time of death.Police responding to a call about a man lying on the ground and in possible need of assistance found the body shortly before 7 a.m.Pub Date: 3/08/99

The body of a man reported to have fallen off a barge about 12 days ago was found Monday morning at the mouth of the South River, Maryland Natural Resources Police said. Gregory S. Luckett, 49, of Pasadena, was found in the chilly waters near Mayo Beach about 11:30 a.m. Anne Arundel County police recovered the body. Luckett was reported missing about 4:05 p.m. Nov. 5 from a 25-foot barge. U.S. Coast Guard officials, joined by several other agencies, had searched for him through the night after they were told he fell into the water while returning from a work site.

On Jan. 22 at 10:30 p.m., her shift over, Elda Vasquez Adorno left the Red Robin restaurant in Ellicott City, hailed a taxi and, according to police, "just absolutely disappeared off the face of the earth." Howard County Detective Thomas Lau quickly found a suspect, the woman's estranged boyfriend who lived in a rowhouse on Benninghaus Road in Northeast Baltimore. The detective questioned him, searched his home and, on many evenings, sat in a plain-looking car on a dead-end service drive across the street, keeping the suspect's house just off York Road under surveillance.

The body spotted Friday by a Verizon worker in an underground cable vault in North Baltimore's Mid-Govans neighborhood was that of a decomposed white female, and detectives are awaiting the results of an autopsy, according to police. The telephone cable splicer, Barry Schwaab, said he had been preparing to do routine maintenance on buried lines and was about to climb down into the vault through a manhole when he saw the body lying face-down in about 5 feet of water. The vault is on a wide alley off Benninghaus Road, just east of York Road.

When it comes to what the therapists call "body image," Marissa Massey doesn't seem to need much bucking up. Before the question was even asked, the inmate at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women had a ready answer: "I love my body. I do." If everyone had that much confidence, Saturday's event at the prison in Jessup might not have been considered necessary. Representatives of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt and the Girl Scouts set up shop at the prison yesterday to continue their campaign to resist what is considered a pervasive cultural obsession with an ideal body type, usually thin and thinner.

"The Universe and the Side of My Body," a huge study in red oil on wood by Kim Manfredi, is not just an eye-catcher in the new show at C. Grimaldis Gallery. It's deeply provocative. A couple of sagging globs of paint on the upper portion of the four, 96-inch-square panels seem to be on the verge of shifting downward, threatening to invade two circular images formed by the perforation of tiny holes with a drill. Those orbs simultaneously suggest microscopic cells and planets adrift in a blood-dense sky. The piece is representative of the intriguing premise of "Sublime Structure," an exhibit that features several Maryland Institute College of Art alumni.

A teenager died from a gunshot wound to the back Sunday afternoon after someone "opened fire without warning" in a West Baltimore neighborhood across from a recreation center and Gwynns Falls Park, police said. The 18-year-old male victim and a 47-year-old man, who suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his left leg, were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police had been called to the 800 block of Allendale St. shortly after 1 p.m.; the teenager was pronounced dead at the hospital less than an hour later.

Reisterstown man pleads guilty to sex trafficking A Reisterstown man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to being a pimp and selling sex with teenage girls, whose services he and a partner advertised on the Internet, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office. His plea agreement says Byron "B" Thompson, 25, and a co-conspirator ran a sex-trafficking business from October through April, recruiting the teens, ages 15 and 17, earlier this year. Thompson faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison.

Initial results of autopsies on a former Anne Arundel County woman and the fetus removed from her womb leave unanswered how the woman was killed and whether the baby lived after he was taken from her body, Oregon officials said yesterday. The body of Heather M. Snively, 21, who had recently moved west from Edgewater, was discovered Friday after authorities were called to the suburban Portland home of Korena Roberts, 27. Authorities said Roberts claimed that she had just given birth to a baby who was not breathing.

Body found in Inner Harbor near Maryland Science Center 2 Baltimore police found a man's body Tuesday morning in the Inner Harbor near the Maryland Science Center. Police said there were no visible signs of foul play on the body, which was discovered about 5:45 a.m. and is the latest in a string of bodies surfacing in the Inner and Northwest harbors this year, including a man found near the paddle boat pier off the Pratt Street Pavilion on March 19. Police also found the body of a 26-year-old bartender near the Broadway Pier in Fells Point on March 9, a body near Thames Street in Fells Point on March 22 and a body near Fort McHenry on March 27. A police spokeswoman said Tuesday that none of those cases had been ruled a homicide.

William M. Parente bought the knife he used to commit suicide late Sunday afternoon, apparently after he had killed his wife and two daughters, police said Friday. A receipt found in the Towson hotel room where the family members' bodies were discovered showed that a set of knives was purchased at 5:24 p.m. Sunday at the Crate & Barrel store in the Towson Town Center mall, Baltimore County police said. Parente, a New York lawyer, beat and asphyxiated his family members Sunday, likely starting with his 58-year-old wife, Betty, police said.