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...increasing breathing capacity and improving the range of motion for muscles and joints." Not only does it increase flexibility, it also improves balance and strengthens muscles--all helpful in preventing falls. That's important, because for brittle-boned seniors, tumbles often result in hip fractures and a subsequent downward spiral of physical and mental deterioration...
...government and the people will not be easily healed. Habibie has survived on the instability of the forces jockeying for a place in the new Indonesia--pro-democracy leaders, Muslim activists, students and the armed forces. Few of those factions are likely to come to his aid if events spiral out of control: by Saturday evening, with protests reported in at least five other cities, that seemed entirely possible. The question may now be whether Habibie will be forced to give way to martial law and a military junta led by armed-forces chief General Wiranto or to a more...
Menick fired immediately and sent a neat spiral to the two-yard line, where Wilske had his recovering defenders beaten by a step. Wilske grabbed the bomb and was tackled into the endzone for the eventual winning points...
...number of students [in the economics course] raise their hands and put forth some of the very traditional views of the division of housework between men and women," Schor says. "The discussion started to spiral. It was a moment that reminded me how divided people still are about the issues that I teach...
...global downward spiral "should serve as a lightning rod to world policymakers--yet it really hasn't," complains Roach. But what can they do? The International Monetary Fund has exhausted its ability to keep acting as a global lender of last resort, in large measure because the U.S. Congress has failed to pass appropriations to refill its coffers. President Clinton has asked Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to set up a meeting with their counterparts in 22 countries, stirring some hopeful talk of a coordinated cut in global interest rates. But Greenspan promptly denied that any such move...