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...skeptic, all evidence is anecdotal. But some anecdotes are more than encouraging; they are inspiring. Consider Sue Cohen, 54, an accountant, breast-cancer survivor and five-year yoga student at the Unity Woods studio in Bethesda, Md. "After my cancer surgery," Cohen says, "I thought I might never lift my arm again. Then here I am one day, standing on my head, leaning most of my 125-lb. body weight on that arm I thought I'd never be able to use again. Chemotherapy, surgery and some medications can rob you of mental acuity, but yoga helps compensate...
...country. Scott Puritz, 44, is the CEO of OptiGlobe, a Web-hosting company that operates three data centers in Latin America--and that plans to build 14 more in the next year and a half. Of OptiGlobe's 350 employees, only 75 are located at the company's Bethesda, Md., headquarters. Puritz has never relocated any of his employees. "That's frightfully expensive, and it's going to take the employee two years to learn how to get it--between the language and cultural differences," he says. "That's the old model...
Freedom's Daughters (Scribner; 460 pages; $30) weaves the stories of neglected figures like Pauli Murray, organizer of the first sit-ins in Washington during the 1940s, and Gloria Richardson, the firebrand of the struggle in Cambridge, Md., during the 1960s, into a seamless saga of inspiring protest. Olson's subjects had to battle not only white supremacy but also the chauvinism of male civil rights leaders. As she writes, black women in the movement "felt torn between loyalty to their race and loyalty to their sex. Most of them chose race, insisting that their own liberation could...
During the remaining three months before Summers moves to Cambridge, his work at Brookings will consist of a small number of papers and speeches. Until then, he will remain living in Bethesda, Md...
...actually own them. That can be a tragedy, since studies show that older people with untreated hearing loss suffer disproportionately from depression, anxiety, paranoia, emotional turmoil and reduced social activity. Brenda Battat, 58, acting executive director of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., knows firsthand the psychological costs of going without hearing aids. "I was the queen of denial," she recalls. "It took me a long time to start wearing hearing aids full time, and I got very, very depressed. I became withdrawn. I refused to go out and meet with my friends...