| Men's singles, final
Tsonga romps on to 40-15, but Djokovic is getting his two-handed backhand going, and forces deuce after Tsonga half volleys - a little lazily - into the net. Tsonga fails to convert his first advantage, but brings up another with a 213km/h serve before Djokovic flicks a wristy backhand into the tramlines. First set: Djokovic* 3-3 Tsonga "This new surface isn't particularly easy on the eye, but its pace is excellent," offers Gary Naylor. "Once the administrators experiment with a slightly higher net (to address the fact that players are taller and racquets much more powerful), we'll see the volley return to the game on all but clay. A lot of these guys are only playing half the game of a McEnroe or a Laver and that's a shame." Good to have you with us Gary; Alex Banks has been asking after you.
International Congress On Gait & Mental Function
There is a widespread misunderstanding that stance and gait are automatic processes, i.e. not controlled by the human brain. However, the fact that many patients with brain disorders are no longer able to walk and engage in simple conversation at the same time makes it abundantly clear that our consciousness and our thinking do indeed control such apparently simple actions. This interaction between human movement and mental and cognitive processes will be the overriding topic at a congress that will be organized by the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Amsterdam in early February 2008.
Our knowledge of how the human brain controls gait has strongly increased over the past few years, partly thanks to research technology such as MRI, and research on gait and balance motor control and on diseases in which such control is absent, such as Parkinson's disease and dementia.
Desire is irrelevant. I am a machine.
My colleague Joe Mathews ably chronicles the interplay of Arnold's "T3" promotional campaign and his political career in the perfectly named 2006 book, "The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy." Schwarzenegger might otherwise have challenged a weak and unpopular Gray Davis in the 2002 election, Mathews writes, but was committed to completing and marketing "T3."
He instead pushed a ballot initiative. Proposition 49 earmarked money for after-school programs. Like a bevy of predecessor measures Proposition 98 (1988), which compels spending for schools and eliminates lawmakers' discretion over nearly half the budget; Proposition 42 (2002), which siphons sales tax on gasoline from the budget and directs its spending on transportation, to name just two Prop.
Thalidomide Returns As Leukemia Fighter
The drug thalidomide was pulled from the market in the 1950s after causing horrible birth defects. But doctors now say a new version is a powerful tool in fighting leukemia, according to a news release from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. Norman Zobel, a cancer patient, said he was surprised how quickly the drug worked. .
Where you turn: On tap
Tulsan Mary Scott Hicks takes a stroll through her memories of growing up with her cousin Coretta Scott King and the lessons she learned from her famous cousin's example in “Two Cousins Walking Through Faith" at the John H. Williams Theatre of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Second Street and Cincinnati Avenue.
Show begins at 8 p.m. and continues Saturday night. Tickets are .
|
