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...International Olympic Committee inspectors arrived in China to assess Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympics, Shan Chengfeng, the wife of jailed China Democracy Party founding member Wu Yilong, was sentenced without trial to two years of "reform-through-labor" in eastern Zhejiang province. The 25-year-old activist was one of 28 signatories to an open letter to the I.O.C. arguing that China's political repression violates the Olympic spirit and urging I.O.C. members to use their leverage to speed the release of prominent political prisoners. More than a month since her arrest in nearby Hangzhou, authorities...
Building on the work of KSG professor Robert D. Putnam, the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, the largest of its kind to date, gathered data from 40 communities across the country to assess citizens' community involvement and their perceptions of community life...
...firmly opposed to children under the age of 16 doing asanas (yoga positions). "Yoga exercise brings on hormonal changes," she says. "Children should not practice it because it affects their growth system." There are no studies supporting that contention, but Christensen says there has not been enough time to assess yoga's long-term damage to young bodies. Hogwash, counter instructors like Marita Gardner-Anopol, who teaches yoga at preschools and elementary schools in New Jersey. "Does ballet interfere with natural changes in the body? Skiing? Ice skating?" says Gardner-Anopol. "Come on. Children are active from the time they...
...firmly opposed to children under the age of 16 doing asanas (yoga positions). "Yoga exercise brings on hormonal changes," she says. "Children should not practice it because it affects their growth system." There are no studies supporting that contention, but Christensen says there has not been enough time to assess yoga's long-term damage to young bodies. Hogwash, counter instructors like Marita Gardner-Anopol, who teaches yoga at preschools and elementary schools in New Jersey. "Does ballet interfere with natural changes in the body? Skiing? Ice skating?" says Gardner-Anopol. "Come on. Children are active from the time they...
When a student comes to UHS seeking an abortion, UHS offers her a medical examination to assess the status of her pregnancy. She then has the option of receiving counseling to help her deal with her decision...