I always get a sore back when on the bench press—where am I going wrong? Mike Lancaster, via email Toby Clifford The main goal of regular bench-press lifting is strengthening and developing the pectoral muscle group. To work properly,…
To race well, mix your training surfaces to match your type of run Race courses can contrast wildly – so should the ground you use to train. “In the same way you vary your mileage and intensity during training –…
The chances are you can remember many of the details of your favourite race – what it was called, when it took place, what the weather was like, how hard did you prepare for it, your special method and rasberry…
THOUGH THE ROSE is not generally regarded as a culinary plant, its alluring scent puts it well within the herbal definition. The ancient Greeks and the imperial Romans made perfumes and medicines from petals and other parts of the rose….
Recently I visited one of the camps sponsored by the Society and the Gujarat Blind Relief and Health Association at a village some 300 miles north of Bombay. The entire community had worked to transform their secondary school into a…
As a keen gardener—he hangs an Oriental wind bell on his spade so he can hear the right place to return to—Wilson understands the problems of blind farmers. “When a man loses his sight,” he says, “his great need is…
His boundless faith and vision of hope light the darkness of their despair JoHN WILSON stood in a dying village in Northern Ghana’s country of river blindness. Emaciated women stumbled past him, feeling their way to the water hole along…
Such a place for me, and I dare say for others, is Torcello, that little island to the north of Venice, situated among other islands growing vegetables, but quite aloof from them. Aloof from everything, it once was. Now, I…
Versailles, home of the ancien regime, provides a stunning backdrop and a potent symbol of the power of the house and its parent company, the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH. And after all the talk suggesting Galliano’s position was less than…
`Geography is indeed a philosophy—that is to say, the pursuit of wisdom with respect to Place’ How is man to chart, geographically or topographically, the position of wisdom? Opinion is divided. We have it on the best authority, namely…
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