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Drivers swap brakemen like prom dates; soap opera surrounds the U.S. women's team like a Lake Placid cold front. Before the 2002 Olympics, driver Jill Bakken, the eventual gold-medal winner, jilted Rohbock, her partner of three years, for Vonetta Flowers. Jean Prahm dumped her best friend, Jen Davidson, for Gea Johnson. Now Prahm has picked Flowers, and after switching to the driver position, Rohbock is teamed with roommate Valerie Fleming. Bakken was back after a two-year hiatus but lost to Rohbock for one of two driver spots on the Olympic team. Got it? "There's so much...
...other scientists are studying involve focusing on an image or sound or on one's breathing. Though deceptively simple, the practice seems to exercise the parts of the brain that help us pay attention. "Attention is the key to learning, and meditation helps you voluntarily regulate it," says Richard Davidson, director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin. Since 1992, he has collaborated with the Dalai Lama to study the brains of Tibetan monks, whom he calls "the Olympic athletes of meditation." Using caps with electrical sensors placed on the monks' heads, Davidson has picked...
Another benefit for employers: meditation seems to help regulate emotions, which in turn helps people get along. "One of the most important domains meditation acts upon is emotional intelligence?a set of skills far more consequential for life success than cognitive intelligence," says Davidson. So, for a New Year's resolution that can pay big dividends at home and at the office, try this: just breathe...
...battle it out with No. 24 Rutgers (3-1, 2-0 Big East), defeating the Scarlet Knights on Friday by a score of 150-149.“We knew that they were going to give us a lot of competition,” junior co-captain Jessica Davidson said. “We were hoping it would be a close meet. It couldn’t have had a better outcome than winning by one point.”For most of the meet, it was unclear who was going to pull through victorious, since both teams claimed...
...sophomore swimmer Jackie Pangilinan has only competed in one meet this year for her school team, her efforts in other venues still manage to single her out as a Harvard star. “[Pangilinan’s] performance overseas was phenomenal,” junior co-captain Jessica Davidson said. “We can’t wait to have her back and to see what she can do.” The undefeated Harvard women’s swimming and diving team has already competed in five meets this season, but Pangilinan has only participated...