Word: feels
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While I rarely agree with the editorial content of The Crimson, I feel I must respond the letter (Letters, Feb. 23) which implicitly blamed the paper for printing a controversial advertisement...
...sings low and buries her emotions. She received a diagnosis of sickle-cell anemia when she was seven years old, and she continues to suffer from it. (She became a spokesperson for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America in 1996.) The ailment, on her bad days, makes her feel as if she has "a big old butcher knife" stabbing into her joints. Sometimes, she says, the pain is so excruciating that she can't walk or use her arms, and family members and friends have to feed her. "The only two items on my body that haven't hurt...
...have to be a professional athlete to reap the benefits of stretching. Start by banishing the idea that it has to hurt. The most you should feel is a mild tension. Bob Anderson, a fitness expert in Palmer Lake, Colo., and author of Stretching (Shelter Publications; $13.95), tells his clients to "forget about no pain, no gain. Stretching should be enjoyable...
...possible, though, to injure yourself by stretching improperly. Always warm up for at least five minutes to get blood flowing before stretching. Don't bounce during stretches and breathe freely to stay relaxed. If you feel you don't have time to stretch before your exercise routine, concentrate your stretching afterward, when your muscles are nicely warmed...
...University of Pennsylvania, in his forthcoming book, Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City. The result is an every-man-a-vigilante mentality that makes violence inevitable. "Even decent people in inner-city neighborhoods are so distrustful of the police that they feel they have no choice but to take matters of personal defense into their own hands," says Anderson. "Instead of relying on the police to protect them, they let other people know that they can defend themselves with overwhelming force, which these days means having a gun and being willing...