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...Girls seem to have a lot more health problems down the road compared to boys particularly because they don’t get involved with physical activities when they’re young,” said Troychansky. The day’s main activities consisted of four workshops on nutrition, yoga, body images, and track and tennis, as well as a panel and lunch. Harvard students involved with the Girls’ FitNut program and Project HEALTH ran the workshop on nutrition, which emphasized the concept of balance in a healthy lifestyle. A makeshift scale was used to illustrate...
...guidance on eating, dressing and working in an international environment. At Shanghai's June Yamada Academy, students pay $900 for a multiweek course during which they dine at a five-star hotel and learn the difference between a fish knife and a butter knife. Meanwhile, at a Shanghai etiquette workshop for HR managers, instructor Liu Wei plucks a man out of the crowd and castigates him for his multihued pink tie. "It's a well-known fact that President Clinton's good taste in ties won him many votes," says...
...they look smart or dumb, and it blocks them from thinking about the long term," says Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford. "[You have to teach them that] they are in charge of their intellectual growth." Over the past couple of years, Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City public school seventh-graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. "The message is that everything is within the kids' control, that their intelligence...
Comedy classes--at clubs, community centers and university continuing-education programs--can sometimes lead to a breakthrough. Carter offers a weekly four-hour workshop that meets for eight sessions and costs $485. Commencement consists of a five-minute gig onstage at the Hollywood Improv in front of a real audience. Half of Carter's students are 50 and older. Jeff Justice, a comedian and teacher in Atlanta, charges $349 for a six-session course that meets three hours a week. His students graduate with a four-minute spot at the Punchline Comedy Club in Atlanta...
...example, Okaalet recalls a ministers' workshop that MAP organized in Zambia. The leader was a dynamic young woman named Bridget who was HIV positive but didn't reveal her status at first. Toward the end of the program, after she had reviewed how HIV is spread, she told the participants that she was infected. "They were shocked," Okaalet says. "She didn't look like somebody with HIV." They were even more stunned to learn that she contracted HIV from her husband, who was a minister, and that he became infected after having sex with a woman he knew had AIDS...