Wednesday, September 06, 2006

money pressures graphically shown

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Here's a small addition to my long Labor Day post on things that could go wrong with the economic situation in the US and world. It...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

thinning bones

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A couple years' back, an article in Bicycling magazine warned about the dangers of bone thinning in cyclists ( WHY YOU NEED TO BONE UP.....
Monday, September 04, 2006

health food

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The same issue of the AARP mag that had the articles on Living Longer also had one on five foods that are particularly good for you. I...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

a not so happy Labor Day

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It boggles the mind that the US economy has remained strong despite deficits, energy costs, natural disasters, unfavorable global imbalances...

live long and well (maybe)

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The the current issue of the AARP magazine has a set of articles on how to live longer and better: Special Report Living Longer September ...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

pilgrim amid dusty rustics: Emerson's Journals, Sept 2-3, 1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson , 1820-1824, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (1909). Emerson continues the ...

Joost on top!

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Yesterday Joost won a Dutch race, Profronde of Almelo . This is a criterim, meaning it's a circuit race in an urban area, in this case ...
Friday, September 01, 2006

a reaction of pain: Emerson's journal, 9/1/1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson continues the travel diary of his return from Western Massachusetts: [Monday, Sept. 1] Afte...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

sabbath sermons: Emerson's journal, 8/31/1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In the morning [of August 31, a Sunday] I called at Mr. Ripley's, and was sorely disappointed ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Joost interviewed

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Joost Posthuma's web site tells of an interview with him in Sportweek and gives a link to a pdf file of the article . Like his site, ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

meditating in the dark: Emerson's journal, 8/29/1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Here's more from Emerson's travel diary about his walk to western Massachusetts. This one ...
Monday, August 28, 2006

climbing Mount Holyoke: Emerson's journal, 8/28/1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Here's more from Emerson's travel diary about his walk to western Massachusetts. He's...

Joost takes 6th place in Eneco Tour

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Joost Posthuma took sixth place in the tour of Belgium and the Netherlands (Eneco Tour). The highest-placed Dutchman in the event, he beat ...
Sunday, August 27, 2006

does sport give meaning to life? - the Kop at 100

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Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of The Kop, a stand in the stadium of the Liverpool football club. It no longer exists, replaced rou...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

a new college: Emerson's diary for August 26, 1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Continuing the narrative of his walk from Boston the Amherst, Emerson's travel diary for the e...
Friday, August 25, 2006

a bit of precarious credit: Emerson's Journal 8/25/1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Belchertown, August 25 [1823] After passing through West Brookfield, I breakfasted among some righ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

pigs are said to see the wind: Emerson 8/22/1823

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From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson JOURNAL OF A WALK TO THE CONNECTICUT August 22, 1823. "Have lights when other men are blind A...
Monday, August 21, 2006

Joost does well in the BeneLux tour

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Joost is in seventh place overall after four stages of the Belgian Eneco Tour . As usual, he did best in the time trial events, third in th...

slouched in a tilted chair, reading: Emerson 8/21/1820

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August 21st. In the H[arvard] C[ollege] Athenæum I enjoyed a very pleasant hour reading the life of Marlborough in the "Quarterly Revie...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

night fears: Emerson 8/20/1837

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An entry in the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson August 20, 1837 Lidian remembers the religious terrors of her childhood when Young tinged he...