Word: mats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amazing how many things you don't realize you need until you get a catalog featuring them. My wife and I had never even discussed toilet tragedies, much less formulated a viable strategy for combatting them. And consider the Tub Rug, a temperature-sensitive bath mat on which the words TOO HOT! appear under appropriate circumstances. It is almost embarrassing to admit, but we had been using a system, devised during the 19th century, in which a parent feels the water and, if it's too hot, says...
...Bullock, an abashed organizer. "The Games are an aphrodisiac. If you want something bad enough, you stretch the boundaries." He points out, however, that the pressure on a bidding city to be hospitable can be intense, and Salt Lake City was hardly the first to gild its welcome mat. "The I.O.C. allowed this sucking up," says Bullock...
With five freshmen on its eleven person roster, the Harvard women are a very young team this year. This has brought about only positive results-both on and off the mat-for the Crimson...
Yoga was a challenge in the beginning, even for the famously fit Tiegs. "The first six months, my yoga mat was like a swimming pool by the time class was over," she says. "I had never worked so hard in my life." But the hard work has resulted in a sublime sense of well-being. "I no longer feel like a leaf blowing in the wind," she says. "I'm on solid ground, and I've never felt better. I have a feeling of power and strength within myself." Yoga is now "a necessity, not a luxury" for Tiegs. Could...
...contraption he designed. Modern studios use machines with spring mechanisms adapted from his original apparatus. The classes can be expensive; one-on-one sessions are in the $50-to-$60-an-hour range. A less costly technique based on Pilates' methods can be done on the floor using a mat. The multitude of exercise variations focuses on controlling breathing, joining it to movement and developing the power center: the abdomen and lower torso...