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...much of sports, after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
...people has always elicited controversial discussion, the Bush administration’s emphasis on abstinence as a preventative measure for (STIs) in young people is simply not effective. Instead, a focus on comprehensive sex education, the availability of contraception, and frequent preventative screening processes are key to ensuring the optimum sexual health of young people. When tackling problems like common STIs, policies such as abstinence are insufficient. Unfortunately, the current administration has opted to spend billions on abstinence education to combat teenage pregnancy and STIs, rather than emphasize safe sex and healthy family planning. These abstinence-only policies are dangerous...
...what if biofuels could be made without food crops, using an inedible plant grown on less than optimum farmland? That's exactly the thinking behind the push to develop cellulosic ethanol from the waste plant switchgrass, which grows throughout the Midwestern prairies, with little input from farmers. Instead of fuel from food, switchgrass cellulosic ethanol promises fuel from virtually nothing - and a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) argues that it's worth making the switch...
...museum in the capital Kigali concludes its description of 1994 with the words: "Rwanda was dead." As a Tutsi area, Nyamata was a crucible of the killing. It was where, in a series of practice massacres after 1990, that the Hutu militia, the Interahamwe, honed their calculations of the optimum rate of dispatch. Come April 1994, around six out of every 10 people in Nyamata were killed, though again, no one is sure of the exact figure. A few miles from Nyamata, a sign at a second massacre site reads: ÉGLISE NTARAMA: +/- 5,000 PEOPLE...
...travel guides. To enter the latter's realm-or, for that matter, the domain of the Luxe City Guides or the Wallpaper City Guides-is to land in a parallel universe of depressingly uniform bars and boutiques. You assume you are experiencing a city at its hedonistic, air-kissing optimum; in fact, you are barely experiencing the city at all. If a visit to Bangkok or Barcelona consists of being seen at what the callow bourgeoisie have decided are the "right" vodka bars, then who's guilty of fostering bland internationalism? It's not just the Holiday...