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...room. An officer removed the curtain to reveal a map of Pearl Harbor. The officer said: "All of you are probably wondering what is going on. For the last four months, we've been doing quite different training. If we don't tell you why, it could affect your fighting spirit. Japan has been negotiating with the U.S. government patiently to maintain our position in East Asia. But the U.S. doesn't seem willing to compromise. The relationship is getting worse. So we might have to attack Pearl Harbor in the near future...
...Normal" may not be a totally accurate way to describe the life of someone who made her debut with a major orchestra when she was 12 years old. Still, Hahn has a point. The hot glare of big-media publicity can affect prodigies like a sun lamp: first you blossom, then you blister. But this wunderkind has paced her career sensibly, steering clear of the pitfalls that await unformed artists who push themselves (or are pushed) too hard. Now, at 21, she is a fully mature musician with a style all her own. Says Fred Rogers, on whose TV show...
BEDTIME STORY A good night's sleep can affect more than your beauty. New research finds that adults who sleep an average of five hours a night have a 40% lower insulin sensitivity than those tucked up for eight. The risk? When insulin can't do its job properly, the body is more likely to develop diabetes and even to gain weight faster...
...indicated that a regimen of aerobic exercise and stress reduction, including yoga, combined with a low-fat vegetarian diet, stabilized and in some cases reversed arterial blockage. The author Dr. Dean Ornish is in the midst of a study involving men with prostate cancer. Can diet, yoga and meditation affect the progress of this disease? So far, Ornish will say only that the data are encouraging...
...Some physicians wonder why it would be tried at all. "Theoretically, if you pressed hard enough on the thyroid, you possibly could affect secretion," says Dr. Yank Coble, an endocrinologist at the University of Florida. "But it's pretty rare. And the adrenal glands are carefully protected above the kidneys, deep inside the body. To my knowledge, there is no evidence that you can manipulate the adrenals with body positions. That...