Dancing makes you smarter, healthier

“Dance was, and is, a unique and essential human activity that connects us to the musical rhythms of life. Unlike rowing a boat or chopping wood, dancing makes you more of yourself as you become one with others. You almost never got tired because your spirit soared the more you danced - because this was play.”

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Vignettes

The morality of language

It is said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. However, when it comes to writing, powerlessness seems to corrupt the language. Some of the news items, features and passages in books published today are crawling with grammatical and syntactical errors.

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Thorns on the Side

A ray of hope

Just last week, the world marked World AIDS Day. Unlike in previous years, this year’s event offered a vision of hope following the release of the latest report from the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. It shows that we might see an AIDS-free world within the lifetime of a majority of the world population.

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