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...most frustrating, though, is that the Athletic Department has been very vague about what will happen to the many fitness and training classes that are offered daily at the MAC. Many students count on these activities as an integral part of their exercise regimen, and a yoga class can’t just be replaced by a run by the Charles or some stretching on the mats in Hemenway...
...open-air pavilion and a plunge pool. If pampering is on the itinerary, then the real gem comes in the shape of the oceanfront spa, where guests pass through the entrance, an antique joglo house from the island of Java, into a bastion of tranquillity with swimming pool, yoga pavilion and hot and cold plunge pools. Rates at the Bulgari will start at $1,100 a night...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN'S REFRAIN of "Let's get physical," along with the ubiquity of Lycra, started it in the 1980s. Aerobics helped push it into the '90s, and yoga certainly added an aura to the category in the new millennium. Chanel, Prada, Dior and Hugo Boss all capitalized on it a few seasons ago. Activewear has come a long way from the gym and, thanks to relaxed dress codes inaugurated by casual Fridays, it has become a uniform for more and more Americans. But it's not about cotton T shirts and sweats anymore. Today activewear can mean everything...
...arthritis on X-ray and nothing except "minimal arthritic changes" on his MRI. He has taken Advil, Naprosyn, Voltaren, Celebrex with minimal help. Injections into his knees of hyaluronic acid (a component of joint fluid) and corticosteroids provided only a few weeks of relief. Physical therapy, braces, acupuncture, yoga all failed. He couldn't get out of chairs, couldn't climb stairs because of the pain. There was one thing left - a knee replacement - and it worked. But we hate to do these for patients so young (35) because we know that one way or another they're going...
DIED. Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian-born trumpet virtuoso who lent his dazzling, shrieking high notes to 60 albums and several of his own Big Bands, which reinterpreted pop songs (including the Beatles' Hey Jude) and helped revive the genre; in Ventura, Calif. In the late 1970s Ferguson, who credited yoga with his ability to hit double high Cs, found brief mainstream fame with Gonna Fly Now, his Top 40 version of the theme song from Rocky...