The distribution of nutrients

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,…

Ground forces

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 –…

Making memories

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…

Herbal culture

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….

World’s organizations

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…

Down to Earth

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…

Sightless Saviour of the World’s Blind

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…

Pursuit of Wisdom

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…

The quality of the work at Chanel is breathtaking, yet the clothes could work in real life

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

`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…