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...increasing breathing capacity and improving the range of motion for muscles and joints." Not only does it increase flexibility, it also improves balance and strengthens muscles--all helpful in preventing falls. That's important, because for brittle-boned seniors, tumbles often result in hip fractures and a subsequent downward spiral of physical and mental deterioration...
...With these final words, the poem "Digging" began 1995 Nobel Prize winner and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney's first collection of poems (Death of a Naturalist) in 1966, inaugurating an entire corpus of work that resonates majestically with themes of searching, wandering and exploring ever downward and inward. Each of his collections of poetry, while encompassing individually different personal, historical, social and political modes, echoes with similar thematic and imagistic ideas. Until now, there really was no comprehensive retrospective of Heaney's work that could show, by placing his texts side-by-side with each other...
Wyss, Sinai and other members of TIME's board think the new cut by itself is too small to have much impact. Other rates, on bonds for example, had already been adjusted downward in anticipation of a Fed move. But it is a heartening sign that Greenspan and the other Fed governors have become convinced that a worsening slowdown is now a greater threat than renewed inflation. Since Greenspan has long preferred to move rates in a series of small, repeated steps, the economists on TIME's board devoutly hope that more reductions will follow, late this year...
...global downward spiral "should serve as a lightning rod to world policymakers--yet it really hasn't," complains Roach. But what can they do? The International Monetary Fund has exhausted its ability to keep acting as a global lender of last resort, in large measure because the U.S. Congress has failed to pass appropriations to refill its coffers. President Clinton has asked Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to set up a meeting with their counterparts in 22 countries, stirring some hopeful talk of a coordinated cut in global interest rates. But Greenspan promptly denied that any such move...
...Beloved (Thandie Newton), who may or may not be the incarnation of the daughter Sethe was forced to murder in her sordid past. As Beloved's presence becomes more and more devastating, Paul D finds himself tested by a number of painful secrets and Sethe plunges into a downward spiral of madness and depression...