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Several studies have found that folks who regularly engage in mentally challenging activities?like reading, doing crossword puzzles or playing chess?seem less likely to develop dementia later in life. The difficulty comes in figuring out whether their good fortune is a direct result of their leisure activities or whether their continuing pursuit of those pleasures merely reflects good genes for cognitive function...
Howard, 36, hasn't lacked for work. In 2005 he appeared in enough films, TV movies and direct-to-video dramas (seven!) to make Catherine Keener seem a slugabed. But as a kid, passed from mother to father to great-grandmother, he learned the hard way about salesmanship. He conned his way into a small part on The Cosby Show by inventing a résumé. An actor has to hustle himself to get into the flow. "It's up to every performer to buy the stage," he says. "And if you've got to pay the first audience...
...mind-body connection in sports is not some New Age construct. Thoughts have direct and powerful connections to all sorts of physiological functions. Think hard enough about jumping out of an airplane, and your heart will start to race and your palms to sweat. Other thought-induced changes may be more subtle, and for athletes who rely on fine motor skills, those imperceptible adjustments can mean the difference between a strikeout and a home...
...role is. Their protocol for a disaster is that locals go to the states, states go to the Federal government, and they bring resources in. When we hit that tipping point and the city flooded, it was not within FEMA's mission, capabilities or competency to go out and direct actual rescue operations. The Coast Guard came in and did it because we're trained to do that. And whatever issues there are with FEMA as an organization, I hope the public does not generalize to a larger responsibility for FEMA. No matter what anybody's issue is, there...
...DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, accuses prosecutor Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, of seeking advantage from national trends by subpoenaing representatives of law firms and Indian tribes connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff and records from lobbyists connected to disgraced Republican congressman Duke Cunningham-individuals, says DeGuerin, who have no direct ties to the campaign finance charges against his client...