Word: physiotherapist
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...those who can legally imbibe, this Village might be less accommodating to the night trawlers than the frat house that was Sydney. "There could be more fun," laments Adamantia Thanou, a physiotherapist for the Greek team. "In Sydney, people were out and about after midnight the entire time. Here, there's nothing going on." Thanou is probably not the best source. First, as a Greek, she has higher nightlife standards: dinner starts at about 3 a.m. in Athens. Plus, it's easy for the trainer to push for parties: What race is she running the next morning? Thanou should...
Uday lived at the center of a complex universe of ciphers and rituals that he concocted. He assigned code names for each of the places he frequented: the Boat Club was called 200; the Olympic Committee, 60; al-Abit palace, 111. Those in his employ were assigned numbersthe physiotherapist, 90; the cook, 222. Uday changed these codes every few months, and anyone who forgot the new system was beaten, according to a note written by Uday at the bottom of the most recent code sheet. A family friend says Uday, like his father, had his staff periodically weighed. If someone...
...muscles of his left leg. His butlers, says one of them, pushed him around his houses in a wheelchair and changed his stainless-steel bedpans when they were full. Uday slept in a twin-size metal-frame hospital bed attended not by fawning women but by a full-time physiotherapist and a butler who says that when he helped him put on his socks each day, Uday screamed in agony...
Joyce Leviton of TIME'S Atlanta bureau interviewed a physiotherapist who can tell from a person's posture whether he or she has a back problem. "He looked at the way I sit in a chair and deduced, correctly, that I have had bouts of backache," she says. New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who first injured his back in a mountain climbing accident a decade ago, interviewed numerous doctors, researchers and fellow sufferers. "There is more awareness of the problem today," says Stoler. "Fewer people are enduring in silence any more. More people are aware...
...sits behind a polished rosewood desk in a small but luxurious office in Boulder, Colo. Behind him hangs a large tapestry of a snow lion by the Japanese artist Tatsumura. His own paintings and calligraphy decorate the other walls. Six disciples, among them a scientist, a classicist and a physiotherapist, cluster around him, each dressed, like the master, in a dark suit. All are part of Chogyam's new kingdom: Naropa Institute, named for a great 8th century Buddhist scholar, the largest Buddhist study center...