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...implausibly hyperextended Kathleen Breen Combes in the Arabian dance was sultry and intoxicating, as was her partner, Jaime Diaz. And was there ever a Dew Drop who lived up so greatly to her name as Misa Kuranaga? Backed by a corps de ballet of lanky, tall flowers, the slight Kuranaga seemed to float among them like a drop of mist. Not every performance was as stunning, however. As the Sugar Plum Fairy, Larissa Ponomarenko was very pretty and precise, but a bit too elusive, and her chilled rapport with Roman Rykine as her Cavalier did not help. Nevertheless, there...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Classic Holiday Ballet | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...healthier players. That may be because the titanium clubs have become popular only in the past decade, and ultra-thin-faced clubs even more recently (it can take several years of exposure to impulse noise to produce a noticeable hearing impairment). It's also possible that golfers have suffered slight hearing loss without even realizing it. There's precedent in another sport: in 2002 a study of 150 competitive tennis players over the age of 35 found that nearly half had developed rotator-cuff injuries, but many never knew it because the damage did not cause any symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golfer's Ear: Can Big Drives Hurt Your Hearing? | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

...season are starting to be confirmed by hard numbers. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department reported that consumer spending in November declined 0.6% from an already weak October. Disposable personal income, a gauge of how much money consumers have after the bills are paid, also declined in November, albeit a slight 0.1%. What's more, a hoped-for uptick in sales on the final weekend before Christmas does not appear to be materializing. Along with the sputtering economy, heavy winter weather across much of the nation played a big role in keeping people home. ShopperTrak, which measures sales and traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Relief from the Christmas Gloom for Retailers | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

...gluteus in your face / You get sprung, wanna pull off your glove.” In an anatomy class spoof on “Dancing with the Stars,” students explain how exactly to be a uterus through dancing. The show may be a “slight exaggeration” from real medical school, however. “I don’t recall any dancing,” says Sam B. Dubal, a first-year student in the audience, of his classes. “But we did have many great dissections.” While...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical Students: Breaking a Leg for the 102nd Time | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...suspected militants were killed by Indian authorities Friday night after trying to cross the border into Kashmir near the village of Dardpura. Two AK-47s were recovered from them, along with ammunition. That encounter, police say, is part of a slight increase in infiltration by militants from Pakistan over the last few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Did Kashmir Have to Do with the Mumbai Attacks? | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

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