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...third major thing people can do, says Buckwalter, is exercise to maintain muscle strength, range of motion and flexibility, all of which protects the joints. "You need to look at taking care of a vulnerable joint the way you take care of your teeth," he says. Ideally, that means stretching and strengthening muscles on a daily basis. "When my patients say, 'I can't do that,'" he says, "I say, well, you brush your teeth every...
...imperialism. Last year, the ailing man transferred his presidential duties to his brother Raul and last month formally stepped down, appointing Raul to replace him. And this political upheaval’s side-effects extended beyond Cuban soil. Castro’s coup d’etat set in motion a series of events that brought many families, like those of Lage, Velo, and Balmori, to the United States, albeit through much hardship. After Lage’s grandfather’s general store was seized by armed guards, Lage’s father boarded...
...building’s lighting system is not only equipped with motion sensors but also dims when it detects the presence of an abundance of natural light. At night, windows open and allow night air to rush in and cool the building and the accumulated daytime heat to exit...
Nine of the 10 known hypervelocity stars were probably set in motion this way, but two postdoctoral students at the Carnegie Institution of Washington suggest that the 10th, known as HE 0437-5439, came not from our galaxy but from the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Mercedes Lopez-Morales and Alcestes Bonanos analyzed the position and speed of HE 0437-5439 and calculated that if it came from the Milky Way's core, it must have been traveling for 100 million years. Yet its color and mass put its age at 35 million years. The alternative is that it came...
...Roosevelt's failed court-packing scheme, for example, or Woodrow Wilson's postwar foreign policy? For that matter, Kennedy would not have faced such a harsh early tutorial if the venerable warrior and statesman Dwight D. Eisenhower had not allowed the Cuba-invasion plan to be put in motion during the last of his eight years as President...