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...labor and help position the baby for delivery. A colorful--and often scarf-intensive--offshoot of the epidural-free childbirth movement, undulating workouts have been a hot topic on maternity blogs since last year's DVD release of Prenatal Bellydance, which remains among the top-selling fitness and yoga DVDs on Amazon.com...
...After the success of Transformers, more movies based on toys will be rushed into development, never mind the DVDs, which bring some creativity-crushing side-effects of their own. "It used to be that kids went to the movies once and saw a film and then if they wanted to revisit the film and enter that world again, they played about it," says Linn. Now, instead of recreating Snow White's world in their heads, kids pop in the DVD and mouth along to "Magic Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" over and over again...
...their babies an intellectual leg up. But a recent study shows that these products may be doing more harm than good. Experts at the University of Washington reported early in August that for every hour each day that infants watched the kaleidoscope of changing images and music on these DVDs, they understood an average of seven fewer words than babies who did not use such products. "The assumption is that stimulation is good, so more is better," says Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician and co-author of the study. "But all the research to date shows there is no such...
...Indians at the time thought, anyway. Recent archaeological studies of their discarded and supposedly Koan amphorae have concluded that those wines were imitations, produced in Italy and simply packaged to appear as if they were from Kos. Two thousand years before the spread of knock-off Rolexes and bootlegged DVDs, pirated merchandise was a global reality...
...have the simple perks too, like the ability to have Harvard pay for DVDs we want to watch for pure pleasure by ordering them through the Harvard College Library website. And we, seniors, are given a leisurely week to hang out before we graduate (whereas other schools give their students the boot a couple of days after the completion of exam period...