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...homes, and the Boston Sports Club.Because he teaches between 20 and 25 classes a week, Pacelli estimates he’s taught more than 1,000 students over the course of his career.Some of his more unconventional students have included Josie, a 101-year old woman who is legally deaf and blind, a 71-year-old marathon runner, and numerous pregnant women, Pacelli says.Psychology Lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 agrees that yoga can have substantial mental and physical benefits.“Yoga is associated with induced calm...and a more positive disposition and higher self...
...have turned a deaf ear to the ideas [Haddock] campaigned for,” Kwong wrote, noting that the support of the campus for Haddock’s “Fix the UC” platform should have carried more weight with the council...
...measures in Peter Costello's 11th Budget-particularly better child-care arrangements-show that the Howard government isn't completely deaf to concerns about female workforce participation. But the inadequacy of the changes to FTB rest on a simple truth: after a decade of constructing a family-welfare state on this scale, major improvements aren't likely to come from the architects. Labor leader Kim Beazley's support crew is mulling over the implications of the trends in tax and welfare. Beazley is now pitching to the middle; the tax burden, workplace insecurity, high petrol prices and interest-rate rises...
...Only the deaf know Hounslow. The west London borough sits uncomfortably beneath the flight paths of nearby Heathrow Airport, where many of the vicinity's largely immigrant Indian and Pakistani residents labor as porters, cleaners and security guards - dreaming of escape, a better life for their children and, for now, triple-glazed windows to block out the noise. Yet Hounslow is about to become famous for another, similarly noisy local feature: a violent, hip-hop-infused, South Asian youth culture that is the subject of perhaps the year's most loudly hyped first novel. The talk of last fall...
...could be asoppy homily: the emergence of the blind, deaf Helen Keller from a feral child, treated like a wild pet by her family, to the bright girl who conquered her infirmities. But William Gibson, in his 1957 teleplay, which went to Broadway in 1959, was true to the crusading ferocity of Helen's teacher, the near blind Annie Sullivan. He also lucked into two actors, Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft, ready to give the performances of their lives. Arthur Penn's 1962 film captures this tutorial tug of wills in all its passion, defiance and tenderness...