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Nintendo's Wii Fit comes with a wireless "balance board" that you set on the floor in front of a TV hooked up to the Wii console. About two feet wide and half as deep, the board is essentially a fancy scale, which not only measures your weight, but also detects your equilibrium with startling precision. To play Wii Fit, you stand on the board and go through a series of exercises/games that fall into one of four categories: balance, strength, aerobics and yoga. You can box, snowboard or hula-hoop. You can practice your tree pose and lotus position...
...social dislocations that might occur when providing long-term social benefits,” such as education. Audience member Harris Sussman, who runs the M.N. Adamov Memorial Fund to assist blind people in Russia, said he admired AKDN’s ability to offer such a “wide scope of activities” while still “respecting and operating within these cultures.” —Staff writer Peter Zhu can be reached pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
Nearly a year after then-Interim University President Derek C. Bok announced the plan for University-wide calendar reform last June, graduate schools at Harvard are moving ahead with its implementation...
...Badaracco wrote that January poses “a significant challenge” in terms of instituting and overseeing a wide range of small-scale activities...
...Hispanic black women have much higher rates of preterm and low-birth-weight delivery. Why that is we're not exactly sure. But if you look at any of a wide variety of risk factors related to infant mortality, you can find differences between blacks and whites and between different races and ethnic groups. For example, a higher percentage of births to non-Hispanic black and American Indian mothers occurred to mothers who did not receive adequate prenatal care, were unmarried or were teenagers, were having a fourth or higher order birth, or had not completed high school. Certainly...