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...presentation. Warren never parts with his favorite prop, which he endearingly calls his “prayer wheel.” He claims he can ride while drinking his coffee, listening to music, and using his cell phone, though this behavior does seem to “make people nervous.” But Warren’s unicycling has a greater purpose than just freaking out passers-by in the Square. Last summer, he gave unicycling, juggling, and theatrical workshops at a children’s circus in Afghanistan to raise malaria and landmine awareness. At the Divinity School...
Jacobellis' party prior to the finish was the only blemish on a near perfect week. The poster child for the boarders, her blond braids were featured in a ubiquitous pre-Olympics Visa ad, where a nervous Jacobellis can't focus until her coach tells her to pretend that someone stole her check card. Cute. One problem--no card will buy her way out of this colossal embarrassment. "I can move on; it's just a race," she says. Just stay away from the replays...
...should be watching for. My first move was to consult the Internet, where I was horrified to find research suggesting a correlation between fast-growing heads and autism. Three hours later my husband came home to find me surrounded by medical-journal articles and two steps shy of a nervous breakdown...
...very difficult to pinpoint a single neurobiological characteristic that distinguishes people with high brain reserve from those with low brain reserve. I think that's been part of the problem: we've been looking for a magic bullet." Instead, Valenzuela postulates that mental activity alters the central nervous system in different ways at various levels. Research on mice, he says, shows that a highly stimulating environment increases both the production of new brain and nerve cells and the density of blood vessels around them. A few years ago, Valenzuela headed a project in which a group of elderly Sydney residents...
...this movie's writer and co-star and a first-time director, how nervous were you that you would crash and burn? Not at all. I grew up in Louisiana, where they throw you in a creek and say, "Swim...