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Grief has always been our most well-policed emotion. Mourning is painful, so we make it the stuff of pageantry --of muffled drums and riderless horses and black-draped catafalques. To suffer collectively is, if nothing else, to suffer prettily...
...only Florida, which announced plans to schedule its primary on Jan. 29, has been informed that its delegates will be cut, barring a compromise. But others, including Michigan, could suffer the same fate. The Republican National Committee has said it will also sanction early-acting states--there are as many as seven--but it has been less strict in reining them in. What's more, on the Democratic side, the DNC granted exceptions to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada (pleasing African-American constituencies in South Carolina and Hispanics in Nevada), and these "first four" have coaxed pledges from...
Elite athletes may be the epitome of health and fitness, but their workout-induced glow could be hiding a problem deep in their lungs. A new study of college athletes at Ohio State University (OSU) finds that young sports stars suffer from exercised-induced asthma much more than previously thought...
...trick, says Parsons, is diagnosing exercise-induced asthma, which many parents, coaches and even athletes themselves mistake for over-exertion. And you don't have to be an elite athlete to suffer from it; there's no threshold of exercise intensity that causes the condition, so for some people, it might not take much panting. Temperature changes can also trigger exercise-induced asthma - working out in the cold brings a large amount of cold air into the lungs, which can cause airways to constrict in response. Fortunately, once it has been recognized, exercise-induced asthma is easily treated with short...
...children's needs. Home-schooled students stay with their families and communities; they choose friends and activities according to their personalities and interests and learn at their own pace. Many home-schooled children begin taking community-college courses in their early teens without leaving home, so they don't suffer the social isolation of the "hurried child" who leaves home for university life before he has matured. For those who fear they cannot teach or do not have time to teach, rest assured that there are options ranging from Internet-based distance education classes and tutors to home-schooling...