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...reply, the photographers begin snapping - zooming in for close-ups of her bag, sunglasses and shoes, always the shoes. "My shirt is Martin Margiela, my skirt is Miu Miu," she recites without prompting. "Who makes your shoes?" someone asks. She can't remember and slips off the sneaker pump to let them look at the label. Before the shoe is back on, they're after their next target. It's flattering to some, but not others. "They're relentless," says American Vogue's Wintour. They have to be. Reporters from a dozen similar magazines wait in front of each...
Trying to pump up children's IQs in artificial ways may also lead to increased stress on the kids, as the parents' anxiety starts to rub off. By four or five years old, the brains of stressed kids can start to look an awful lot like the brains of stressed adults, with increased levels of adrenaline and cortisol, the twitchy chemicals that fuel the body's fight-or-flight response. Keep the brain on edge long enough, and the changes become long-lasting, making learning harder as kids get older...
...conventional wisdom has it that when prices at the pump clear $2 a gallon, summer trips start getting canceled. And guess what - we may already be there...
...that yoga thing. A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. Yoga now straddles the continent--from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning...
...Trying to pump up children's IQs in artificial ways may also lead to increased stress on the kids, as the parents' anxiety starts to rub off. By four or five years old, the brains of stressed kids can start to look an awful lot like the brains of stressed adults, with increased levels of adrenaline and cortisol, the twitchy chemicals that fuel the body's fight-or-flight response. Keep the brain on edge long enough, and the changes become long-lasting, making learning harder as kids get older...