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Athletes may not be turning in their rackets and oars for spandex and yoga mats just yet, but an increasing number of Harvard athletes are doing yoga to sharpen their physical and mental game. The nation’s largest Division I program with 41 varsity sports, Harvard has more than 1500 student-athletes juggling athletic and academic commitments. According to the National College Health Assessment 2004, 33.7 percent of Harvard undergraduates indicate stress as an impediment to performance, both academic and otherwise. From the varsity men and women’s squash team to the varsity men and women?...
Nothing sucks the life out of a meeting quite like a flat, boring presentation. To sharpen your show and keep yawning at bay, try Ovation ($100), a new software tool that takes your existing PowerPoint file and morphs it into a professional-looking talk. It even lets you create a scrolling teleprompter onscreen to help you deliver your message more effectively...
...Clarence Jones, 1904-1987,” reads a gravestone-like inscription superimposed upon a rugged mountain landscape in one of Ed Ruscha’s recent paintings, “Really knew how to sharpen knives.” The dry wit, irony, and originality that pervade such a painting should also be on display in Ruscha’s upcoming Harvard lecture, which he will deliver at the Carpenter Center next Thursday...
...urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confront us daily,” writes the Carpenter Center in their online description of the event. And whether such sweeping praise is true or whether Ruscha just really knows how to sharpen knives, the lecture promises to be interesting...
...design company in Dallas, recently began attending networking poker events for executives, typically male. "It's a social setting where they find out you're competitive and intelligent," she says. "They see you as someone they can do business with." Other card-playing businesswomen say poker can help sharpen business skills. It teaches how to think strategically and size up the competition and the risk- reward ratio of each situation swiftly and objectively...