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...There are a lot of things that have been done to make gymnastics safer," says Miller, "but you can always do more." One measure would be to certify gymnastics coaches and clubs on a national level, ensuring a basic level of safety standards. No such system currently exists, but Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics, says his organization is hoping to create a USA Gymnastics University, whose goals will be to educate and certify coaches on training and safety practices. For now, parents should be looking for gyms that employ USA Gymnastics professionals and coaches, who are required to complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Gymnastics Safer for Kids | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...struggled to provide even the basic necessities is a stretch. No food (although we did get mini Pepsis that tasted like they’d been sitting in a shed for 10 years), no game notes until seconds before the opening faceoff, and no live stats until halftime (and even then sparse ones...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAD ABOUT YOU: Gillette a Poor Host For Lax Writers | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...lost my attraction for her." If [those wives] think there's any chance at all that their looks may have something to do with the problem, rather than bemoan the fact that they think their husbands are shallow - I agree - they should also understand that attraction is a very basic, animalistic thing - especially for men. Men are more visually oriented when it comes to arousal. So women can debate that, but the truth is, if they really want their husbands be more interested in them, they should pay more attention to how they're taking care of themselves physically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help for Sex-Starved Wives | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...Affairs of Martha is an all-too-frantic suburban comedy. Reunion in France, which opened within a month of Casablanca, has a similar plot - Paris society belle Joan Crawford is tempted to leave her Resistance-hero husband for American airman John Wayne - but it's miscast, risibly implausible, your basic botch. In The Canterville Ghost (1944), Dassin's job was to referee between two shameless scene-stealers: Charles Laughton and the seven-year-old Margaret O'Brien. If there's a magic moment in any of these features, it might be the climax to Two Smart People (1946), where gunzel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

Prayer is one of the five basic pillars of Islam. "Everyone prays," my husband says. People innately want to call out to God. We all do it, in different ways. By missing my prayers, I would be shrugging off one of the most important, yet basic, obligations of my faith - being observant of it doesn't make me less "American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Being American — and Muslim | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

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