Word: fitfulness
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...sign language not for the hearing impaired, but the hearing enhanced. Ed Smith, managing director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, says that what makes Dudamel extraordinary is his ability to conduct in two directions, communicating with musicians and with the audience. This requires an athlete's physicality. A fit young man, Dudamel has already begun to adopt the posture of his first conducting teacher, José Antonio Abreu, who at 68 is almost hunchbacked from years of pouring himself forward into the orchestra. During delicate passages for the winds, Dudamel reaches his hands into the orchestra as if picking...
...latest twist in childbirth prep involves jangling sequins and hip-shaking Middle Eastern music. As the growing popularity of belly dancing ripples across the U.S.--helping many a gymgoer wiggle off unwanted pounds--the ancient art form is also being practiced by moms-to-be to stay fit and ease their way through labor. From Georgia to California, dance instructors have started tailoring classes to help pregnant women with their flexibility, strength and breathing. "As soon as we feel pain, we tense up and hold our breath," says Stefanie Masters, who teaches two free classes a week in a maternity...
...fall begins in mid-August: the return of routine and new backpacks and the sudden loss of leisure that comes with the burst of the New Year. For that is August's real purpose on the calendar, to be its dying days, before autumn comes and the air is fit to breathe again and everything starts over--football season, TV season, fourth grade and the chance to break all the resolutions made on vacation for the year ahead...
...Well, I'm better than you because I did this good.' I did that good too!" (Of course, being labeled prodigies in stories like this one probably inflates them, but researchers have found that outside labeling has less effect on your self-concept than where you fit in with peers you see every day.) Going to Davidson has been an adjustment for kids used to "being on the top of the pile," in the words of Colleen Harsin, 36, the academy's director. Harsin has heard Davidsonians arrive at difficult realizations: "I'm not as smart as I thought...
...From the beginning, Aguirre didn't fit the typical SEC profile. The agency prefers to harvest its lawyers, young and malleable, but Aguirre heard a calling for public service after 28 years of private practice in San Diego. At the age of 61, he enrolled at Georgetown, and spent two years earning a masters in law degree (LL.M.), focusing on securities law. Once he got his chance at the SEC in September of 2004, the rookie was handed a case involving suspicious trading activity possibly based on someone tipping off Pequot Capital Management, Inc., a $7.4 billion Westport, Conn., hedge...