Explains how student-constructed "aliens" were used to generate writing and to encourage the development of writing skills. (JL)

Offers a writing exercise, based on a comic-strip theme, that teachers can use to relieve tensions between them and their students while developing students' expressive writing skills. (RL)

Describes a poetry writing assignment that teaches students the importance of place and objects in expressing emotions about a childhood memory. (RL)

While historically physical and emotional disabilities have been treated with conventional approaches such as counseling and psychotherapy, research has demonstrated that jogging may be more effective than these approaches in bringing about various positive personality changes in disabled individuals. (Author/SBH)

Twenty-four writing exercises which have been found successful in challenging gifted children are provided. Among exercises described are having the class write a story about information of their choosing from an almanac and having students write a story about what they usually think about just before falling asleep. (PHR)

Methods of weight reduction are described and compared. (JD)

The efficacy of blood doping (infusion of blood into an athlete's circulatory system) has not been established and merits further research. (JD)

Presents seven writing lessons for elementary students: choosing effective words; writing similes; writing paragraphs; writing descriptions; letter writing; comparing and contrasting; and understanding point of view. Some of the lessons have unusual themes, such as pizza, pickles, and hoboes. (SJL)

Computer simulation was used to analyze techniques of performing the flip long jump. (MM)

An Olympic-type event for people over the age of 55 is described. (JD)

Elementary school children learn about good nutrition and physical fitness through a series of stories that form the basic structure of a health education curriculum. (JD)

A comparison is drawn between muscle use and timing in the skills of overarm throwing and of service in tennis. (JD)

A comprehensive physical fitness program maintained for employees by a corporation is described. (JD)

The decrease in intraocular pressure during exercise and the first few minutes of recovery is related to a decrease in blood pH and an increase in blood lactate concentration, not to the intensity of the exercise. (MB)

This study investigated the question as to whether or not fatigue produced by performance of heavy physical work involving the legs would transfer to and impair following performance that utilized the muscles of the arms; under certain exercises and conditions transfer was found to take place. (JD)