Personal Best : By GINA KOLATA
NEWS about stretching seems to come in waves. Stretch as part of your warm-up. No, stretch after your workout. No, don’t even bother stretching. Or the doozy: Even if you think you like it, it’s been oversold as a way to prevent injury or improve performance.
The truth is that after […]
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Skin Deep - Lasik Surgery: When the Fine Print Applies to You : By ABBY ELLIN
I WAS vain.
That’s the only way I can explain why I willingly let a doctor cut my corneas with a laser: vanity. Little did I know when I chose Lasik surgery that I would not end up satisfied like the […]
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By KENNETH CHANG : No other 310-mile-wide ice ball in the solar system is attracting quite the attention as Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft had a deliberate near-miss with Enceladus on Wednesday afternoon, passing about 30 miles above its surface at a speed of more than 32,000 miles per hour. Over the next […]
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In the Hunt - It’s Easy, and Expensive, to Forget About Old Equipment By:BRENTBOWERS
DOES the Panasonic phone that is gathering dust in your basement still work? Where did you store the Dell monitor your brother gave you after he acquired a wide-screen Samsung? Whatever happened to your original computer — the one you used to […]
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By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE : WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and so far it has identified nearly 50 tapes, including one that showed what a military spokesman described as the forcible gagging of a terrorism […]
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sled - Warm Welcome for Winner of Iditarod : By ALEX BERENSON
NOME, Alaska — The dogs did not want to stop.
At 2:46 a.m. Wednesday, a team of 11 dogs pulled Lance Mackey through the rough wooden arch that marks the finish line of the 1,100-mile Iditarod race between Anchorage and Nome. For the next few […]
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