Word: mayo
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Missed out on all the Cinco de Mayo fun? Make the most of your Sunday evening with salsa dancing at the Ryles Jazz Club. Lessons start at 6 p.m. for the beginners...
...strikers argue, however, that their protest is misunderstood. "We are not defending drunk driving," Carlos Casillo, 28, of the 22 de Mayo transport workers union explained to TIME. He and about 30 other drivers were planted on a La Paz street corner under the hot noon soon "enforcing" the strike. When the occasional operating taxi or mini-bus passed by, the group would bang on its hood and try to block its passage. Casillo concedes that harsh penalties are appropriate for drivers who've been drinking. But, he says, the rest isn't fair: "I hire others to drive...
...will a few minutes of solving brainteasers each day add up to much of anything? In a study published in April in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, scientists at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Southern California used standardized memory tests to assess 487 healthy adults over the age of 65, half of whom were asked to complete Posit's two-month brain-fitness program. The results of the Posit-funded study show that the software users improved their mental speed by about 60% compared with 7% in the control group...
...Crucially, those artists also taught at academies like the Mayo School of Art in Lahore, later revamped as the National College of Arts (NCA). In an essay in Hanging Fire, Pakistani novelist and TIME contributor Mohsin Hamid, who had friends who went to NCA in the 1990s, writes: "The place was a microcosm of Pakistan, but of a creative Pakistan, an alternative to the desiccated Pakistan that General Zia [ul-Haq] had tried to ram down our throats." Many of the artists in the book, most of whom are in their 30s and 40s, have trained or taught (sometimes both...
...design them in ways that pilots can actually use them in a time crush. They helped us design ours. We set a target that no step along the way would take more than 60 seconds and the whole process should be, in routine situations, under two minutes total. The Mayo Clinic adopted the checklist that we designed. And they actually reduced their operating time, because it helped the teams be more prepared...