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...yoga student is often a person over the age of 40 who never had a supermodel's body and who comes to class for help in coping with chronic back problems, poor health conditions and the stresses of everyday life. Many senior-citizen centers offer yoga classes. While seniors are enthusiastic about the benefits of yoga, none of them can do the demanding poses of the crow, the side crow and the bound lotus that you pictured, nor would these poses be included in their classes. You would have done better to tell your readers about the reduced blood pressure...
...poses) probably confirmed the misconceptions about yoga that keep people from trying it. Instead of wasting space naming the celebrities who practice yoga, you could have given more coverage to the numerous health benefits and curative powers of yoga for such problems as migraine headaches, panic attacks, menstrual disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome and back pain. DIANE M. PAVESIC Huntington Beach, Calif...
SPLITTING HEADACHES Here's a new pick-me-up for longtime sufferers. Researchers report that a combination of low-dose tricyclic antidepressants and stress-management training can significantly reduce the severity and frequency of chronic tension headaches. The regimen is not for folks who suffer from migraines or the occasional pounder; it's for those with head pain that is severe and unremitting, occurring nearly every day for at least six months. And though the antidepressants require a prescription, they may be a better choice than aspirin, Advil or other over-the-counter pain relievers, most of which can trigger...
...Battle (published a year after the last helicopters lifted ignominiously off the American embassy roof in Saigon) by saying that, what with Vietnam and nuclear weapons, "the suspicion grows that battle has already abolished itself." It is pretty to think so. What we have left, in any case, is chronic but localized messes--and terrorism of the McVeigh or bin Laden variety...
That the council failed to properly publicize this event is nothing new—nor does it speak to the failure of any one person to make sure that the publicity occurred. Rather, publicity (or the lack thereof) is a chronic problem on the council, and one that tends to become ingrained as successive groups of representatives and leaders cycle through the organization...