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...also have evidence from the actual performances themselves. Since some anti-doping controls have been introduced, the caliber of top performances in the world has already been reduced dramatically. For example, the world record in the women's 400 m, which was set in 1985 by Marita Koch, is 47.6 sec. These days, Olympic finalists would be happy to get below 50 sec. That's a 30-meter difference! [Editor's note: Koch has never publicly admitted to cheating...
...Werks” ran this past weekend at the recently completed Harvard Dance Center (HDC), and its performances were as sleek and modern as the new venue. The opening dance, “Not Fire, Not Ice” choreographed by graduate student Marita L. Sheldon, set the evening’s tone. Five black-clad dancers took to the dimly lit stage and cycled through poses eerily suggestive of death throes as a solemn voice boomed lines from Robert Frost’s apocalyptic poem “Fire and Ice”. Odd mechanical sound effects...
...nerve with the Swedish electorate. Polls taken just after the party's launch last week suggest FI could take 7% of the vote in the next national election in September 2006 - not only leaching support from small left-wing parties, but also the ruling Social Democrats ( SDP). Marita Ulvskog, Social Democratic Party secretary, fears that the FI could steal votes from the left-wing coalition: "This could mean that we lose the next elections. And I don't think women's causes are better served by a non-Socialist government." While analysts believe FI has a good chance of winning...
...Yoga exercise brings on hormonal changes," she says. "Children should not practice it because it affects their growth system." There are no studies supporting that contention, but Christensen says there has not been enough time to assess yoga's long-term damage to young bodies. Hogwash, counter instructors like Marita Gardner-Anopol, who teaches yoga at preschools and elementary schools in New Jersey. "Does ballet interfere with natural changes in the body? Skiing? Ice skating?" says Gardner-Anopol. "Come on. Children are active from the time they are three...
...Yoga exercise brings on hormonal changes," she says. "Children should not practice it because it affects their growth system." There are no studies supporting that contention, but Christensen says there has not been enough time to assess yoga's long-term damage to young bodies. Hogwash, counter instructors like Marita Gardner-Anopol, who teaches yoga at preschools and elementary schools in New Jersey. "Does ballet interfere with natural changes in the body? Skiing? Ice skating?" says Gardner-Anopol. "Come on. Children are active from the time they are three...