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Chalk up a diplomatic win for the White House. President Bush's surprise offer last week to talk to Tehran yielded breakthroughs that have momentarily quelled fears of U.S. military action against the Iranian regime. During a marathon meeting in Vienna with diplomats from the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, as well as Germany and the E.U. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice obtained an unprecedented commitment from Moscow and Beijing to support penalties in the Council if Iran refuses a package of political and economic incentives and continues nuclear activities that could enable it to build...
Until she stepped into a dragon boat, Kathy Pollonais-Britt was most emphatically not a team player. The veteran marathon runner loved the solitude of pounding the pavement, not the egoism and pressure of team sports. "I'd never been a groupie," she says. But when her employer, the health-care company Kaiser Permanente, sponsored the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival last year, the social worker was intrigued. In dragon-boat racing, a 2,000-year-old Chinese sport traditionally held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, paddlers race to a drummer's beat...
...teaches between 20 and 25 classes a week, Pacelli estimates he’s taught more than 1,000 students over the course of his career.Some of his more unconventional students have included Josie, a 101-year old woman who is legally deaf and blind, a 71-year-old marathon runner, and numerous pregnant women, Pacelli says.Psychology Lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 agrees that yoga can have substantial mental and physical benefits.“Yoga is associated with induced calm...and a more positive disposition and higher self-esteem,” says Ben-Shahar...
...province-that he's welcome in the U.S., traditionally Taiwan's staunchest ally. But Washington, irritated by Chen's provocative stance toward Beijing, told him that only Hawaii or Anchorage, Alaska, were open to him. Affronted, Chen decided not to landed in the U.S. at all, taking instead a marathon route via Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam to Latin America. Washington appeared willing to slight Chen to placate Beijing, whose cooperation it needs on everything from reducing the U.S. trade deficit to reining in the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran. Given China's growing clout, the world looks...
...Anyone can do so without joining an esoteric group. One simply has to attend to the daily liturgy of the church, pray regularly, be sincere in trying to live a good life and become an active member of the local parish-no self-flagellation required. (The Rev.) Tom Zelinski Marathon, Wisconsin...