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...Gain with No Pain? Yoga in its original form is a multifaceted, millenniums-old discipline that spans physical, ethical, psychological and spiritual dimensions [Oct. 15]. In our mass-market Western world, those aspects of yoga have largely been jettisoned, and the physical is marketed as a hot new form of calisthenics. Used skillfully, the physical elements offer benefits such as enhanced flexibility, agility and body awareness. Used unskillfully, they can - not surprisingly - damage muscles and ligaments. Wise practitioners will proceed gently and carefully under a good teacher and eventually look beyond the physical to yoga's deeper potentials. Roger Walsh...
...best, an imprecise analogy, because money isn't flowing from poor people's pockets straight to the rich: the pie is getting bigger for everyone. From 2000 to 2005, pretax income for the bottom half grew 15.5%. The rich just got a larger cut of overall growth (a 19% gain for the richest 1%). Perhaps better, then, to call it the big-slice theory...
...Scherf and captain Sarah Bourne, defeated Yale for the first time in eight years. Most notably, however, freshmen Jamie Olson and Claire Richardson finished second and third for Harvard, setting the tone for the class of 2011. “H-Y-P, where we beat Yale, helped us gain some confidence at the beginning of the season,” Richardson said. Since then, the Crimson’s freshmen have been front and center, but not without some help from their older teammates. “A lot of it is due to leadership from seniors, particularly captain...
...recommends half a cup to a cup of whole-grain cereal per day, adding that moderation is important, because weight gain can contribute to diabetes and high blood pressure, negating the positive effects of whole grain consumption...
Djousse said the association between whole grain consumption and reduced heart failure risk is caused by nutrients in the whole grains, such as fiber and certain minerals, that lower blood pressure and inhibit overeating, thereby impeding weight gain...