Word: effective
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...change. "About halfway through I suddenly started playing differently. I was using my mind more, and I was much more aggressive," he says. "I don't know if it was a coincidence, but it was striking." In addition to improving his tennis, Qi Gong has had an intriguing physical effect on Levine. "It's like a total body massage. It stirs you up in strange ways. You get this tingling feeling, like something's waking up in there," he says. "They say old men do it, so I'm looking forward to doing it for the rest of my life...
...dust and fecal matter, scented with the noxious odor of hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation water for much of that part of the country...
...sounds like a stretch to blame America's educational problems on what is essentially a literary and cultural movement, that's because it is. Paglia's assertion that humanities professors at Harvard are "trying to take away meaning, tell students it's all meaningless"--thus producing that "gnome" effect--simply isn't true. A small fraction of our humanities classes deal with literature produced in the second half of this century, much of which has come to be labeled "postmodern." The aim of these classes, like any others, is to give students a way of understanding and appreciating the material...
SHORTS OR TINIES? It seems the International Volleyball Federation, which regulates indoor volleyball, is tired of being the dowdy sister to beach volleyball. The federation's new uniform standards went into effect this month. Women's shirts "must follow the body line," say the regulations. And women's shorts "must be tight in waist and length," with a maximum inseam of 5 cm and "cut in at least a 30[degrees] angle toward the top of the leg." No ruling on tans...
...moms may think their brain has turned to mush, but a study suggests just the opposite: motherhood actually boosts brain power--at least in rats. The surge of hormones during pregnancy seems to cause a proliferation of new growth within tiny brain-cell structures called dendrites. The effect on behavior--mommy rats are curious, bolder and learn mazes more quickly--may be long lasting...