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...about ballroom dancing for exercise? It's joy, not work. Swing, salsa, tango for blood pressure, heart, balance and alertness. All that while you hear great music and hold someone in your arms. Vera Lee Newton, Massachusetts...
...mind in a sound body" has never been more relevant. M. Venkata Krishnan Madras, India How about ballroom dancing for exercise? It's joy, not work. Swing, salsa, tango for blood pressure, heart, balance and alertness. All that while you hear great music and hold someone in your arms. Vera Lee Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. I am a 56-year-old male, mostly vegetarian, a nonsmoker and only a social drinker. Both my parents, prior to their reaching age 40, suffered from heart ailments and diabetes. I have been practicing yoga and taking a brisk walk five times a week...
...writer Albert Wendt. But somewhere along the way, the writer got lost. "When we came to the scene, the memory of Tusitala was becoming almost mythical," says RLS Preservation Foundation president James Winegar, a former Mormon missionary from the U.S. who helped set up the Vailima museum with aloe vera millionaire Rex Maugham in 1994. Not only the memory of the writing had faded - Vailima, too, had seen better days. After a 1990 cyclone all but destroyed what had become the official residence of Samoa's head of state, the foundation assumed responsibility for Vailima's restoration. Its mission...
...clan of rank and property and launched it into exile. There were Nabokov's university years at Cambridge; his ascension as "Sirin," the pseudonymous literary star of the Russian émigré communities of Berlin and Paris; the coming of World War II; and the flight to America with Wife Vera and Son Dmitri. Colorful details from this period include Nabokov's career as a teacher at Wellesley and Cornell, his cross-country butterfly hunts, his friendship and falling-out with Edmund Wilson and the sensational success of Lolita, which freed Nabokov from the academy and allowed him to live...
...VERA LEE -- Newton, Mass...