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When the Beatles huddled with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967, he was already exporting Transcendental Meditation to a waiting world. By 1975 his U.S. organization had 370 centers, and 30,000 people a month were signing on to learn his 40-min. technique for finding bliss. This was no holy hermit: that same year he was on the cover of TIME...
...whose recommendations the agency usually follows--has, ahem, doled out support for Uprima, a new impotence drug that works by targeting chemicals in the brain thought to be responsible for an erection. (Viagra, by contrast, increases blood flow to the penis.) Uprima can act in as little as 10 min. and succeeds in 60% of men, but it's not without risks: 1 in 30 subjects who took it either fainted or suffered serious drops in blood pressure...
...sure what, if anything, estrogen can do for the heart, you should focus on what we know can help preserve good health. First of all, if you smoke, stop. And exercise regularly; even if you're averse to strenuous activity, you can help yourself by taking a brisk 30-min. walk at least four days a week. Find out by a visit to the doctor if you have diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, and, if so, start treatment. Most important, don't be spooked by interim reports from unfinished studies or by breathless accounts about them...
MOST SURPRISED THAT THE PRESIDENT... Can do N.Y. Times crossword in 10 min...
...designed to run--suffer all manner of physical ills, from fractured legs to bleeding lungs, as a result of overuse. "You don't have these problems in antelopes and cheetahs, but in horses, we've apparently pushed to the limit," says Weyand. "If a human ran a 2-min. mile, you might see the same thing...