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...Start Young Get kids moving with games of tag or hide-and-seek. And for tinier tots? Easy, says Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Sports Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Ask them to run like a gorilla, walk like a spider, hop like a bunny or stretch like a cat. Just try to get them to stop...
...optimistic and keep pushing and pushing and pushing. So they pointed to a hopeful sign: 10 Senators who had never before supported cap-and-trade legislation voted for Reid's attempt to move the bill forward. That was good news by any measure. But it would be a stretch to call it a sign of inevitability. This is a war, and in war, the outcome is never preordained...
...health services soars with repeated deployments and lengthy combat tours. If troops do not get sufficient time away from combat - both while in theater and during the "dwell time" at home before they go back to war - it's possible that antidepressants and sleeping aids will be used to stretch an already taut force even tighter. "This is what happens when you try to fight a long war with an army that wasn't designed for a long war," says Lawrence Korb, Pentagon personnel chief during the Reagan Administration...
...online purchase of costly textbooks, the Coop asked a student to leave the store in September because he was writing down information about textbook names and prices. The Coop claimed that the information was its “intellectual property.” That’s a real stretch, but judicial practice in copyright cases is unpredictable these days. Few students would have the nerve and the resources to stand on principle in federal court...
...times when we really needed them.”Signs that Kessler’s sophomore campaign would be a special one came early and often. After allowing a pair of goals in each of Harvard’s first two games, Kessler rattled off a remarkable five-game stretch in which the Crimson’s opposition scored just twice.After blanking conference foes Yale and Brown on consecutive nights, Kessler’s faced the daunting task of protecting the net against nationally-ranked ECAC heavyweights St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Dartmouth.The Harvard offense provided more than enough firepower...