If your goal is sounder sleep, it’s a good idea to try tiring yourself out during the day. Any exercise can do this, of course. But yoga may be the best type for the job.
Not only does yoga offer (often intense) physical activity, but it imparts an extra mind-body benefit. “Yoga helps elicit what we call the relaxation response, which is essentially the physiological opposite of the stress response,” says Laura Malloy, director of yoga programs at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Read More...
Affiliated with her country's Green Party, this member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia also served from 2005 until 2008 as Mayor of the Chapinero division of Bogotá, Colombia.
Before Fame She earned her law degree from the University of La Sabana in Chia, Colombia.
Trivia She served on the Bogotá City Council beginning in 2011 and was a co-founder of Colombia's left-wing Independent Democratic Pole party.
Family Life She was the first openly lesbian politician to hold national office in Colombia. Read More...
Long before President Carter proposed taxes on gasoline and the sales price of big cars, Detroit’s auto designers knew they were in trouble. A law passed 17 months ago required automakers by 1985 to turn out cars that average 27.5 m.p.g., v. 17.7 m.p.g. for the average 1977 auto. As recently as February, General Motors Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy protested that GM could do so only by making nearly all its cars as small as the boxy-looking subcompact Chevette. Read More...