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...participating in an aerobics class three or more times a week. For others, walking as fast as they can half an hour a day most days of the week will do the trick. In fact, all other things being equal, people who engage in a wide variety of physical activities???like walking and biking and dancing and swimming?seem to be better protected against cognitive decline than those...
Several studies have found that folks who regularly engage in mentally challenging activities???like reading, doing crossword puzzles or playing chess?seem less likely to develop dementia later in life. The difficulty comes in figuring out whether their good fortune is a direct result of their leisure activities or whether their continuing pursuit of those pleasures merely reflects good genes for cognitive function...
...total, perhaps two-thirds, are gaps in the President's conversation. In a meeting with then White House Counsel John Dean III in the Oval Office on Feb. 28, 1973, for example, the President (P) is discussing how to handle the newly established Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities???the Watergate committee...
...Daniel Buchman. Known in the U. S. as "A First Century Christian Fellowship" ("Buchmanism" to a dubious press), The Groups held large house parties in Cape Town. South Africa two years ago and in Oxford last summer. In Manhattan, The Groups influence emanates from Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church. Their activities???personal evangelism, weekly meetings in the parish house?are led by Rev. Ray Foote Purdy, onetime Princeton Y. M. C. A. secretary, and Calvary's Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., who gave a demonstration of "primitive Christian practice" for the bishops of the 50th-triennial Episcopal convention in Denver last...
Twice in the past five months has Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South withstood the bombardment of public investigation of his widespread activities???once by the Methodist General Conference (TIME, May 26 et seq.) and once by a Senate committee (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Neither inquisition seemed to injure the Bishop's position or prestige within his church...