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...link between ovulation and exercise may also involve a natural opium-like substance, beta-endorphin, that pours into the bloodstream during stressful workouts. Beta-endorphin has been shown to suppress female hormones regulating the menstrual cycle. In any case, for women runners being treated for infertility, good advice seems to be: stop running...
...thing should be perfectly clear: The "restoration of order" by brute force is impossible. It is impossible especially in Poland, where destruction of hopes people cherished so long can bring only more and more resistance--even if it will be only a passive resistance. Solidarity cannot be suppressed, since the only possible way to suppress it would be to exterminate ten million people--people who believed and still believe that the progress of democracy is the only chance of improving their lives. The Polish military regime and its Soviet principals will be at war, with the Polish people as long...
...long haul. In physical terms, the army and the other security forces are stretched to the limit. Said one Western diplomat, "There is not one unit or piece of equipment in reserve." Most soldiers are on 18-hr, shifts. The army is not being used to suppress strikes or break up demonstrations. A tank may be used to burst through a factory gate or fire a warning shot, but it is the militia (police) who are left to do the dirty work...
...Henze sees it, it is the artist's responsibility to "fight the reactionary forces in the world-any sort of racist, enemy of peace, any person who threatens the freedom of others, anybody who wants to suppress the young in the striving toward new experiences and knowledge." He defines fascism as "the bourgeoisie in arms against the proletariat," and professes himself a supporter of the burgeoning European peace movement. So what was his reaction to the violent Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? "Ah," says Henze, "that was the [Soviet] workers in arms...
...woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving to the healthy character. Let all of us without bashfulness assert what the Greeks would find it absurd to suppress...