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...heat of performance, though, it can be difficult to give the mind sufficient distance to understand what the body may be doing incorrectly. That's where a new generation of video software technology can make a vital difference. When Tara Kirk, a swimmer at Stanford University and Olympic-medal hopeful, was competing in races in 2003, she thought she was keeping her body straight in the water as she swam. Then she had a chance to look at herself on a laptop screen. Using a software program called Dartswim, her coach superimposed a picture of Kirk's technique from...
HEALTH: Monitoring vital signs at a distance; restless-legs syndrome...
...billion and 13 billion barrels of oil. Though crude is not expected to flow before 2008, Kashagan could produce more than 1 million barrels of oil a day by 2015, helping to make the country one of the top-five oil producers in the world. That could be a vital source for the West, especially if the political kinks in the supply lines from Russia, the Middle East and Nigeria persist. Nazarbayev's government has signaled it wants a more active role in managing those vast resources. In 2003, it decreed that the state oil company, KazMunaiGaz, must...
...packed stadiums. For the players, it's a chance for a preseason tune-up in the perfect environment - away from their rabid fans. "The facilities are second to none," says Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Kenyon. But more important, the big clubs now see the U.S. as a vital market in the race to establish a global brand and cash in an ocean away from home. Soccer is wildly popular in Europe, but it's a financial mess. Only teams that have global reach will be able to afford the star players who ensure winning results year after year...
...campaign the savviest pols are leapfrogging to declare him the odds-on favorite for the nation’s first non-white president. That kind of dreaming might be a little premature for the former first black president of the Harvard Law Review, but seeing Obama’s vital performance on Tuesday made it seem almost required...