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...colicky, cranky, crying baby: new parents' biggest bugbear. In his new book, this L.A. pediatrician says the problem may be too much quiet. By re-creating the biological ruckus of the mother's womb, including constant movement and the swooshing sound of blood flow, you can set off any baby's "calming reflex." Follow the "five S's," says Karp: 1) Swaddle the baby (using Karp's special tight technique); 2) place the baby on his side or stomach; 3) shush him loudly; 4) swing or bounce him rhythmically; and 5) give him something to suck on. Even dads...
First what heart failure is not. It's not a heart attack, in which something, usually a clot, blocks the flow of blood through one or more of the coronary arteries--though the damage from a heart attack can be severe enough to cause heart failure. It's also not cardiac arrest, in which the electrical signals that govern the heart become so disorganized the heart can no longer pump blood through its chambers--though patients with heart failure are at much greater risk of dying from cardiac arrest...
...flow of talent will continue, because the game continues to flourish beyond the professional level. American youth soccer has been criticized as merely a weekend pastime for most kids and their "soccer moms." And it is. Yet select teams from all over the country?even in Texas, that gridiron football mecca?are developing talent just the way the vaunted youth programs of Holland and France do. And consider the population the U.S. can draw upon...
Native Americans, we like to believe, live at one with the universe, serenely attuned to the ebb and flow of natural forces. The culture of the U.S. Marine Corps is quite the opposite--gung-ho machismo in full cry. Yet in World War II, the latter had a desperate need for the former, specifically for an unbreakable code, based on the Navajo language, which could be openly spoken on the radio in combat. Windtalkers is a (heavily) fictionalized account of this coupling...
...People will beam their flow of sensory experience on the Web, so you can plug in and be someone else, a la Being John Malkovich. We will be able to expand human intelligence." --Ray Kurzweil