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Beginning in the sixth grade, the pupils are asked to make a two-year commitment to take on the workload from the program—which Mead said includes not only additional class time during the year, but also six weeks of classes and two hours of homework per day in the summer...
...says Kryzanowska, whose students include people with hip replacements, bad knees and a large variety of bad-back maladies. The technique is about developing "the powerhouse"--the muscles in the abdomen, buttocks and lower back that are the collective point of origin for all Pilates exercises. "I give people homework," she says, "like exercises to do in bed before you even put your feet on the floor in the morning. We don't pop 'em into a class and command them to do a hundred...
...gleaming new factories pushed electrical consumption up by 21%. Local power stations are able to provide only about half of the juice demanded by the city and its 5.4 million residents, so even the pampered children of government officials have been forced to do their homework by candlelight, and factories have had to buy diesel generators to produce their own electricity. Last year, during the worst of the blackouts, traffic lights went dark and newspapers ran special sections listing which districts would be affected that day?a situation that is likely to repeat itself in the next few weeks...
...Arrested Development "What Makes Teens Tick" [May 31], on the new research into the brain physiology of adolescents, stated that "the last area of the brain to mature is the part capable of deciding, I'll finish my homework, take out the garbage, and then I'll IM my friends." But I believe the last area of the brain to mature is the part capable of deciding, I'll clean my room, put soiled clothes in the hamper and return those dirty dishes to the kitchen without being told to. From my own highly unscientific observations, this level of cerebral...
...miss the people the most...and the food the least—and the late nights doing homework,” Frank says. “But I think I will be trading late nights doing homework for late nights doing clients’ work...