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...Alms for Business' Sake Creative capitalism has enormous potential to lift large numbers of people out of poverty, but we should not glorify corporations for engaging in it [Aug. 11]. Creative capitalism and corporate social responsibility are essentially versions of the old "win-win" strategy: Help the poor while helping yourself. In creative capitalism, corporations improve the living standards of the poor, thus developing new markets while they improve their reputation. This is not to criticize the concept, as it can bring great benefits. But it is as much about business as philanthropy. Lisa Crisostomo, Brussels...
...sure it makes sense to talk in those terms. I think it's inevitable, partly because of technology, partly because of travel, migration patterns. I do believe that America has a special role to play in trying to lift up a set of ideas, a set of rules of conduct for countries that aren't imposed by force but by example. I think our economy has helped to provide a template for other countries, our judicial system has helped to inspire other countries...
...stay happy. Watch a movie. The doctor in Germany told me, you can't sit around doing nothing. That's going to weigh on you the most, when you're not doing anything. So it was more like, do something else to make it look positive. I have to lift weights to keep my body strong. So: lift. Keep it strong...
...just ideals that have helped lift Spain. Investment in sport began to increase when the country hosted the 1982 soccer World Cup and then rose dramatically in the run up to and aftermath of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Sports clubs began to multiply, and the state created dozens of centers where thousands of elite athletes can train at the government's expense. "This has enabled a professionalization of sports unthinkable two decades ago," says Moscoso, "and encouraged Spaniards to see sports positively - fathers want their sons to be soccer players...
Resistance stretching centers on flexing your muscles even as you stretch them; for example, instead of simply releasing a leg lift, resist the urge to let your quad muscles relax on the way down--and fight that urge with both your hamstrings and your quads. Some of these stretching moves can be done alone and others with a partner whom you'd enlist to, say, pull your fist away from you as you work to pull it in during a bicep curl...