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...someone who is a public intellectual,” Early says, noting that general-audience books sell many more copies than those targeted only to scholars. If you’re one of those professors writing only to colleagues, “you’re lucky if a thousand people know your book,” Early says. “But Mr. West will write a book and sell a ton of copies. I feel the university needs both types of people...
Americans tend to treat ancient rituals like new cars, customizing them for convenience, then trading them in when something more exciting comes along. But that isn't the way belly dancing is seen by people like Don Gold, president of StudioWorks, a Thousand Oaks, Calif., video distributor whose parent company gave the world Tae-Bo. Gold just signed a deal with belly-dance instructor Dolphina, who teaches in Los Angeles, to distribute her Goddess Workout Fitness Video series because "we think we're ahead of the curve of a new revolution." It's possible that the practice will become classic...
...Goldstein has been warning cyclists that hours of sitting on a bike saddle can create enough pressure on the perineum, the area between the anus and the pubic bone, to permanently damage the artery that supplies blood to the penis. On the basis of a study of several thousand men in a Boston riding club, Goldstein believes that as many as 4% of male cyclists have problems with impotence due to cycling...
...South Bronx's worst neighborhoods, meeting seven-year-olds who couldn't vote for him. Why was he there? It was 2000, he wasn't running for reelection, he wasn't running for president, and yet there he was talking with teachers in a state a thousand miles from his own. He was there because he believed those kids were the people he was fighting for on the floor of the Senate...
...hankering to sip chamomile with the Queen Mother herself. A new teashop in Cambridge aims to shatter this image with a taste of original tea. Truth is, the British have only taken tea-time for 350 years. The Chinese, on the other hand, have been at it for five thousand...