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...hold, and restructure the athletics program to a level compatible with Ivy League education. Right now, rigorous sports programs prevent many athletes form enjoying the numerous benefits of an Ivy education. It is a tragedy for an athlete to come to Harvard and then never have a chance to soak, up its scholarship because he or she is too busy catching up after endless hours of practice. The school loses out, the team loses out, and most important, the individual loses...
bright, luminous point of consciousness, radiating light, warmth and knowledge." "Wow!" as a young New York woman wrote in the logbook after a $15, one-hour soak at Manhattan's Tranquility Tanks. "Orgasmic!" said another...
Medical verdicts on tank therapy range from harmless to beneficial. Some physicians say that a long, hot soak in an old-fashioned tub at home can be as salutary-and solitary. But who needs hot water for meditation? Said Henry David Thoreau, the master solitudinist: "A man thinking or working is always alone, le him be where he will...
...factory tours shakes he wants to avoid the long hikes on hard floors. When he shakes hands with large groups of voters, he props himself against a table or folding chair held by a Secret Service agent. Rest periods are programmed into each day, so that he can go soak for an hour in a hot bath. The pain is aggravated by rides in bouncing buses and by nights in the soft, sometimes sagging beds of supporters' homes. Kennedy takes along a bed board, which helps, but whenever possible, he sleeps on the firm and familiar mattress...
...bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity...