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...young man called Eugene Morris Jerome bounds into his Brooklyn family home, shaking with cold, and tells his grandfather an impromptu joke about the weather: "I saw a man kissing his wife on the corner, and they got stuck to each other. Mr. Jacobs, the tailor, is blowing hot steam on them." His grandfather, as always, sees nothing funny in Eugene's whimsy. Weeks later, Eugene moves out to start a new life as a comedy writer for network radio in Manhattan. His grandfather, ever wary of affection, wonders whether he will have to endure a parting embrace. Eugene replies...
...more intimacy, then retreat to the resort's traditional Hammam (Turkish bath). This beautiful, warm sanctuary, with its intricate mosaics and splendid dome, is a place where the outside world melts away. I chose the Ritual treatment, where I disrobed and was bathed by my therapist before entering the steam room. My body was then plastered in mint-scented clay and my face smeared with honey that smelled so sweet I was tempted to taste it. Know going in that the word massage is derived from the Arabic mass (gentle touch). After a second bathing, as aromatic oil is rubbed...
Because cortisol is a long-acting hormone, you can dally under the covers a bit without losing any steam. But your brain is already taking steps to protect you from the shock of starting a new day. Rising cortisol levels signal the hypothalamus to stop sounding the alarm. Other parts of the brain chime in, and eventually the adrenal glands ratchet down their cortisol production. In other words, the brain's stress response contains its own off switch...
...communicate with Harvard Yard squirrels. They can chew through your bonds and, working as a team, carry you to freedom. 14) Replace a few strands of your hair with garotte wire. Too intense for you? Fine, fail your final. 15) Burrow into Harvard’s network of steam tunnels and escape to the relative freedom-from-grades of the Business School...
...authorities' patience. In Bangladesh a hospital seems to be an invitation to make as much noise as possible. Outside a hospital in Dhaka, waiting to interview an academic who was temporarily incapacitated, I noticed each driver in line to get into the small drop-off area was letting off steam by blasting their horns and shouting abuse at the people ahead of them. Conducting it all was a guard with a piercing metal whistle which never left his mouth. "Not the most peaceful place," agreed TIME's Dhaka stringer Haroon Habib when he arrived to help with the interview...