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...seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Learning how to kick butt in the world of Japanese martial arts, or budo, has its price. Bruised bottoms and foot soles throbbing with tatami-mat burns are standard badges of honor. But persevere, and these disciplines can boost mental alertness and physical strength, as well as relieve tension. For the novice, the variety of budo can be bewildering. Judo focuses on neutralizing opponents by throwing and pinning them to the floor. Karate emphasizes the concentration of all one's strength into a devastating blow. Jujitsu, a system devised...
...Nashville Children's Theater. "The Tony was a great shot in the arm." Funding, while never easy to come by, is flowing a bit more easily--partly because children's theater can be sold to community-minded donors not just as an arts project, but as a boost for literacy and education. A growing number of mainstream playwrights, like David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) and Kia Corthron (Force Continuum), are writing plays for children. New theaters are under construction in Minneapolis and Tempe, Ariz.; the Dallas Children's Theater has just moved into...
...troops could be pondering questions like that for years. The Pentagon is planning to maintain in Iraq a force of the current size--138,000--for the next two years. And the top brass will probably boost the numbers to almost 160,000 for the next three months to bolster security for Iraq's elections. The Army's top officer conceded last week that the current 12-month tours in Iraq cannot be scaled back to six or nine months, as the White House wanted. The long deployments are pinching recruitment and retention, especially as veterans contemplate returning to Iraq...
PENNSYLVANIA A strong turnout in Philadelphia gave Kerry enough of a boost to overcome Bush?s 2-to-1 lead in rural areas. Kerry gained wide support from young voters but split the over-65 vote with Bush...
...Bush. "It is especially shameful in the light of a new tape from America's enemy." But did Americans agree, or was the tape a reminder of Bush's failure to catch the murderer he had once vowed to bring in dead or alive? Some polls showed a mild boost for the President when voters were asked if the video had pushed them toward a candidate, and who knows? Perhaps bin Laden did help give the President another four years. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and James Carney/ Washington