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Infant mortality can be curbed
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stuffed animals, pillows, or
lose blankets in. the crib with
the baby where they may suf
focate.
• Do not let anycaie smoke
around the baby The second
hand smoke that babies
breathe in harms their lungs
and can cairse many lUnesses-
The best time to try to pre
vent infant deaths actually
starts well before a woman
becomes pregnant.
Pranature birth is the lead
ing cause of infant death in
our community If women and
families are able to reduce
stress, quit smoking and stay
away from second-hand
smoke, or leave a violent
home situation before they
become pregnant, they have a
much better chance having a
healthy baby when they do
becorne pregnant later.
Doctors recommend that
women who plan to become
pregnant see a health care
provider before tryir^ to con
ceive. These visits offer an
opportunity to identify and
decrease any potential risk
factors the mother may have
before pregnancy to treat any
pre-existing medical condi
tions, and to inform the
patient regarding what can
best be done to increase the
chances of having a healthy
pregnancy
Communities and family
members can play an impor
tant role in this effort to
reduce infant deaths by help
ing mothers, sisters, daugh
ters, and friends become
healthy long before they try to
get pregnant. Healthy moth
ers are more likely to have
healthy babies.
Remember: Knowledge is
power but it is what you do
with it that makes all the dif
ference!
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T-shirts possible with bags
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wearing their purchase,
sometimes even leaving their
old clothes behind, Glick says.
The shop also sees its fair
share of tourists who buy
somelhing to say they got it in
a store-camper, he adds.
Caravan is the last stop on
tour of “Sex and the City’s”
favorite city haunts. (The
“Sex and the City” link to
Caravan is that it sells clothes
from Heatherette, a brand
championed by costume
designer Patricia Field.)
Earlier this summer. Gap
drove its Rock Color bus from
Cahfomia to New York, blar
ing its music and selling
brightly colored T-shirts,
hoodie sweatshirts and board
shorts along the way It also
had a seemingly endless sup
ply of rainbow love beads it
gave away for free to passers-
by The store was especially
busy in that post-limch lull
that many people experience
at work—right around 2 or 3
p.m., reports Eric Rutherford,
who served as master of cere
monies, but functioned hke a
store manager.
One grandmother spent
$420 on clothes for her grand-
dat^hte', asking the “road
ies,” aka the sales staff, what
would be considered “cool?
The grandmother said the
mobile store was more
approachable for her than a
store where she’d feel out of
place, according to
Rutherford.
At first, the Rock Color bus
was seen more as a tool to
complement the brand’s
“Summer of Love” theme.
Gap spokeswoman Erica
Archambault says, but the
company is considering doing
it with more of a retail focus.
A bus might serve well as a
back-to-school sales vehicle
and plans are in the works to
incorporate a mobile store
into the all-important hohday
season.
The company hired a real
bus driver who sat next to a
cash register that rang up
sales equal to a medium-sise
Gap store on a typical sum
mer weekday People could
pay with credit cards, but
Cary, N.C. one of best cities to live
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Matters said. Last year the magazine focused
on prime siiburban areas. The rankings and
associated data available ordine proved so pop
ular editors decided to expand to small cities.
The goal was to highlight communities with
fewer than 300,000 residents that are not
dependent on metropolitan areas for jobs, art
and entertainment venues and recreation, he
said.
Soldiers shape up with peaeeful yoga
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PENSACOLA, Ma.-When
Marine Lt. Alan Zarracina
finally did the sphts after
months of struggling with the
difficult pose in Nancy La
Nasa’s yoga class, Ihe limber
wom^ around him clapped
and gave encouragement.
Zarracina, a 24-year-old
Naval Academy graduate and
fli^t student, admits he’d
have a hard time esq^laining
the scene to other Marines.
Each class ends with a
chant for peace and La Nasa
hands students incense sticks
as a gift for completing 90
minutes of back bends, shoul
der stands and twisting their
bodies into comphcated posi
tions.
‘T’ve tried to drag some of
my (military) friends to class,
but I get made fun of It’s not
necessarily considered mas-
cuhne,” he said.
But the popular classes,
based on ancient Hindu ja-ac-
tices of meditation throx^h
controlled breathing, balanc
ing and stretching, are catch
ing on in military circles as a
way to improve flexibility bal
ance and concentration.
The August edition of Fit
Yoga, the nation’s second-
largest yoga magazine with a
circiilation of 100,000, fea
tures a photo of two Naval
aviators doir^ yoga poses in
full combat gear aboard an
aircraft carrier.
“At first it seemed a Httle
shocking—soldiers practicing
such a peaceful art,” writes
editor Rita Trieger.
Upon closer inspection she
said she noticed "a sense of
inner calm” on the aviators’
faces.
'War is hell and if yoga can
help them find a little solace,
that’s good,” Trieger, a long
time New York yoga instruc
tor, told The Associated Press.
New York yoga master
David Life created the
Jivamukti Yoga method,
which focuses bn practicing
yoga to attain enlightenment.
His students teach the
melhod worldwide at studios
in Tbronto, Munich and
London and celebrities such
as Sting, hip-hop mogul
Russell Simmons and design
er Donna Karan are among
his chents.
While the martial arts are
rooted in yo^c practices, mod-
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returns and exchanges had to
be handled at permanent
stores. A trailer stocked with
additional product followed
the bus so there would
always be a supply of T-
shirts.
Caravan lecently added a
brick-and-mortar presence to
treat some of the company’s
growing pains, such as inven
tory and returns. Since the
VWnnebago has limited space,
it typically has on hand just a
few garments in each size
and stjde, so it’s not xmeom-
mon to non out of a hot item.
But now an onboard comput
er is hooked up to the store,
allowing immediate invento
ry checks.
If the same garment is at
the store, sometimes the
truck goes back to restock or
sometimes Glick wiU pick it
up at the store and then drop
it off at a customer’s resi-.
dence or worIqDlace.
Mobility goes a long way
toward customer service,
GKck says.
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Laist year. Fort Collins made Outside maga
zine’s list as a “dream town” to live and work in
part because of the area’s abxmdant recre
ational opportunities.
National attention doesn’t necessarily attract
more people or businesses to those commxmi-
ties. Matters said.
‘We are not a leading indicator, we are fol
lowing,” he said. 'Teople already know these
are great places to live.”
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em warfare has become so
hi^-tech that soldiers have
lost contact with these tradi
tions, Life said.
‘T feel the interest in yoga
fium the people in the mili
tary shows that a professional
warrior is not a mindless ner-
voxis system with a finger on
the trigger. It goes back to the
day when the warrior was
cahn and self assxired becaxise
they foxmd that calmness
within themselves,” he said.
Life said he hopes yoga can
help soldiers in their roles as
“peace makers” by teaching
them the techniques of
achieving an inner peaceful-
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