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...must also ensure that the myriad problems facing the hundreds of millions of Chinese left on the margins of the boom - lack of access to health care, education and clean drinking water, among other issues - are addressed. If they are not, social unrest could rapidly increase. The number of "mass incidents," large demonstrations that often deteriorate into violence, hit a record in 2005, according to the most recent full-year government statistics. If ignored, those pressures could "blow China apart," Huang says...
...goal is to prevent the spread of breast cancer around the world, perhaps more attention should be paid to these global changes rather than to the development of more expensive - and often unattainable - medical devices and drugs. Leonard A. Cohen, Ph.D., Editor, Nutrition and Cancer: An International Journal, Northampton, Mass...
...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...
...commanding officer of three Level 2 medical facilities--field hospitals providing emergency medical treatment and surgery--just behind the front lines in Fallujah, Ramadi and Taqaddum, Pennington displayed all those virtues. She was responsible for overseeing the treatment of mass casualties coming through the door of the surgical units, day or night, including U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers, civilians and insurgents; and transporting the most severely wounded on emergency helicopter flights in complete darkness to avoid enemy fire, all while maintaining the safety and morale of medical personnel under frequent attack...
...range," says Christian Fisher, whose left arm was cut off in an elevator accident (the limb was reattached but is not functional). Driving the ball is particularly difficult, which makes it all the more amazing that the good players consistently hit 280 yds. and above. "I've lost muscle mass on my left side because I don't have anything there," says Scott Lusk, 34, who has been missing his left arm since a car wreck in 1992. "You have to pull with your hips and legs to make up for it, which takes away the consistency on your swing...