And this week, an upscale Copenhagen hotel began offering free dinners to guests who sweat it out on power-generating cycles.

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The company was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank after growing tired of sweat soaked T-shirts while working out.

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Guan Tianlang had to sweat it out, but the 14-year-old from China became the youngest to ever make a cut in a PGA Tour event.

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If market history means anything, we might have to sweat out another four or five years of range-bound stocks.

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Then, in December, he had to sweat it out for the European money title against a fast-closing McIlroy, who won that Tour's next-to-last event in Hong Kong.

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When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.

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That's convenient for people who live in their headgear 40 hours a week, but it's also nice for companies where employees share helmets -- after all, it'd be nice to take out your own lining so that you're not sharing the same sweat-soaked padding with someone else.

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That winter, I even bought a twenty-pound log splitter and would go out in the backyard every morning and split wood until the sweat started steaming from my body like those horses in that Alfred Stieglitz photograph.

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But the hosts were made to sweat even more when Adams shared a last-wicket partnership of 88 in 43 overs with Danny Briggs (15 not out off 97 balls).

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