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Looking for a way to avoid the dreaded plane drain of business trips? Airplane Yoga, by journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt and yoga instructor Bess Abrahams, presents Hatha yoga--inspired exercises designed to fight flight fatigue. The guide gives flyers ways to stretch and relax at each leg of the journey, from security to baggage claim. Exercises include Heavy-Luggage Hand Stretches, Red-Eye Foot Flexes and Deplaning Pep Walks. Drawings accompany the easy-to-understand text, and many moves use available props like waiting-area chairs, meal trays and barf bags (the last are wrung to release wrist tension...
...turned to creating vast marijuana plantations Stateside, that much closer to their main customers. Thanks to a mild climate, rich soil and a lengthy, March-to-October growing season, California cultivators routinely produce 10-ft.-high specimens worth up to $4,000 each. Some of these California pot farms stretch over several hundred acres and have as many as 50,000 plants. Last year 420,000 pot plants with a street value of $1.5 billion were eradicated from the state's 18 federal forests, a tenfold increase from 1994. In Sequoia National Park, renowned for its majestic trees, rangers confiscated...
Heath Woods doesn't get much business these days. A paramedic at Mount Snow in Vermont, he treats injured mountain bikers during the summer. Yet over a four-week stretch during which hundreds of riders braved the mountain's rocky woodland trails and craggy fields, he saw nary a soul. A few years ago, he bandaged half a dozen banged-up riders each weekend. Now, says Woods, 26, "the equipment is so much better, fewer riders are getting hurt...
...tough schedule would not act as a deterrent, according to Sneddon, who felt that any new coach would want a chance to test his team against the toughest competition in preparation for the ECAC stretch...
...Shido's aspirations stretch beyond rekindling Kabuki's popularity in Japan. A lifelong fan of comics, he dreams of creating a Kabuki play featuring his hero Spider-Man and performing it in New York City's Central Park. "When Kabuki's taken abroad, it's always presented as something traditional and grand. I'd like to show people that it's a living thing?there's nothing you can't do with Kabuki," he says. Then he sets off on the short walk to the theater, where the next generation of fans waits to be converted...