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...while the University and residents mobilize on both sides of the issue, in the meantime, Mahoney's manager James Hohmann says that the nursery will continue to perform its function in the Riverside neighborhood, serving as a quality small-scale nursery for the Cambridge and Boston area, as well as a public garden for local residents...
...cancer patients, reducing the length of hospital stays and easing the pain and fatigue of a number of ailments. Achterberg's greatest challenge came in 1999, when she developed cancer in her left eye. She refused treatment: "I couldn't have my eye taken out." Too upset to perform guided imagery on herself, she relied on prayers and vicarious healing imagery from friends and colleagues. So far, she has survived 18 months - doctors gave her six - and is now studying the curative powers of communal prayer that she calls "transpersonal medicine...
Where there's a yoga blitz, there must be yoga biz. To dress for a class, you need only some old, loose-fitting clothes--and since you perform barefoot, no fancy footwear. Yet Nike and J.Crew have developed exercise apparel, as has Turlington. For those who prefer stay-at-home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's VHS best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff...
Leah wanders among the students, propelling the class forward even as she stops to adjust an arm angle here or perform a thyroid-massaging chin tuck there. She urges noncompetition, with oneself ("However you do the posture today is how you should do the posture") and with others ("How can you compare yourself to your neighbor? You don't have the same body!"). Her monologue becomes a mantra, returning my oft-wandering focus back to the pose I'm attempting. Where is my center of balance? Can I feel my spine stretch if I imagine my head and tailbone pulling...
...operation was the first attempt to do gene therapy for Alzheimer's, and it took 11 hours to perform. It was designed primarily to determine whether the procedure is safe enough to test further. The goal is to bolster a group of neurons called cholinergic cells located at the base of the forebrain. These brain cells play a critical role in our ability to reason and process information, but they are just one of several kinds of cells that degenerate during the course of the disease...