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Competitive yoga is a sport in some Indian schools today. Less known is that in most years since 1989 there has been a World-Wide Yoga Championship

athletic, artistic and rhythmic yoga

Korean martial art taekwondo is in the Olympics

it has far fewer participants than yoga

just the start of his list of Olympic events that yoga surpasses.

demonstrating a position in which she twists her feet behind her neck while balancing on one hand

two team members struck synchronized poses as required by the "artistic pair" competition

Judges score on flowing movement, steadiness and perfection of line and, in the words of Mr. Gopal, "a lack of stress and strain on the face."

Researchers say this unique mixture of features is reflected in its DNA.

holds clues to how humans and other mammals first evolved

But it is the only member of the monotremes (egg laying mammals) for which we have a genetic blueprint.

The platypus is so strange that it was considered a hoax when sent from Australia to European researchers in the 19th Century.

"It has a very weird appearance because it's a mishmash of the bill of a duck, the eyes of a mole, the eggs of a lizard and the tail of a beaver," Dr Ponting told BBC News.

"One big surprise was the patchwork nature of the genome with avian, reptilian and mammalian features,

The platypus and the small spiny mammal known as the echidna are the only existing species of monotremes in the world.

many people who've arrived over the last century and a half see this Native American land grab as a drain on their tax base and powers of economic development.

tribal leaders are increasingly removing the land from tax rolls by placing it into federal trust.

government officials and critics are trying to fend off the Native American's land rush.

"I don't think in the modern world it makes any sense to tie any individual rights to a tribal entity that is unaccountable," said David Vickers, president of Upstate Citizens for Equality in Verona, N.Y., an organization which disputes the notion of Native American sovereignty. "It's possible to maintain cultural identity without establishing a separate land base."

Other criticism followed and the coffee and doughnuts chain has now decided to drop the advert.

n a statement, Dunkin' Donuts said the silk scarf had been "selected by Rachael Ray's stylist and that no symbolism was intended.

typically 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose.

preferred sweetener for many food manufacturers.

cheaper, sweeter and easier to blend into beverages than table sugar.

carbohydrates came into the body as sugars,

the liver took the molecules apart

put them back together to build fats

All this happened within four hours after the fructose drink. As a result, when the next meal was eaten, the lunch fat was more likely to be stored than burned.

Americans are eating too many calories for their activity level.

After fructose consumption, the liver increased the storage of lunch fats that might have been used for other purposes.

The Stanford findings suggest

science might one day find ways of switching the signals off and halting or even reversing aging.

inborn genetic programs make organisms grow old.

competing theory holds that aging is an inevitable consequence of accumulated wear and tear: toxins, free-radical molecules, DNA-damaging radiation, disease and stress ravage the body to the point it can’t rebound

“The take-home message is that aging can be slowed and managed by manipulating signaling circuits within cells,”

Gene-doping may also work by modifying genes that are already in an athlete's cells but whose functioning he or she might want to control.

A synthetic virus called Repoxygen, for example, has been used this way in animal tests to insert a gene for erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that tells the body to make more red blood cells, which carry oxygen to muscles.

Injected into an athlete, a harmless virus could carry a performance-enhancing gene and splice it into a muscle cell, said Theodore Friedmann, a gene therapy researcher at the University of California, San Diego (quick genetics overview).

"Training and athletic workouts probably do their work at least partly by modifying the expression of genes," Friedmann said.

Friedland and colleagues note that potato virus is a fairly common infection that poses no risk to humans (many people have probably eaten PVY infected potatoes). While tests of PVY antibodies will ultimately determine how useful they can be, they may be a promising lead to treating this debilitating disease.

The director of the Royal Institution says the "sensory-laden environment" of computers could result in people "staying in the world of the small child".

The last 10 years have seen a three-fold increase in the prescription of the drug Ritalin

Attention Deficit Disorder

This might, and I stress might, be something to do with the increased exposure of young children to unsupervised and lengthy hours in front of a screen."

if a small child is sitting in front of a screen pressing buttons and getting reactions quickly for many hours, they get used to and their brains get used to rapid responses

She contrasts the life of modern-day children with the generation which grew up without computers, who had to work to find answers by going to a library to look things up.

more than 30 years

Australians were among the first to popularize it

in America, by contrast, boxed wine has had trouble escaping a down-market image.

lighter packaging instead of heavier glass

a large part of carbon-dioxide emissions associated with wine comes from simply trucking it from the vineyard to tables on the East Coast.

A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York.

400,000 cars

America will soon become the largest wine market in the world.

boxes are perfect for table wines that don’t need to age, which is to say, all but a relative handful of the top wines from around the world.

Once open, a box preserves wine for about four weeks compared with only a day or two for a bottle.

As long as your food choices for the entire day are healthy and not too high in calories, either eating style can work.

spend days being sorted, packaged, and then shipped,

You may actually get more nutrients from some frozen fruits and vegetables. The same holds true for some canned vegetables.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than frozen ones.

Decaf coffee has no caffeine.

Once the Yahoo store goes down and the key servers go offline, existing tracks cannot be authorized to play on new computers.

Yahoo recommends the old, lame, and lossy workaround of burning the files to CD, then reripping them onto the computer.

it creates hassles that illegal users won't deal with

DRM makes things harder for legal users

it (often) prevents cross-platform compatibility

1) to control piracy

all four major labels and most indies now sell DRM-free online.

Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Dog, known in Chinese as "xiangrou," or "fragrant meat," is eaten by some Chinese for its purported health-giving qualities.

South Korea banned dog meat during the 1988 Seoul Olympics by invoking a law prohibiting the sale of "foods deemed unsightly." After the Olympics, the ban was not strictly enforced.

Dog meat is also eaten in some other Asian countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Laos.

Also if you’re driving downhill, let your vehicle coast and when you’re coming to a stop don’t slam on your brakes, slowly reduce your speed.

Have a dehumidifier? Use the water

water your flowers

Reuse trash bags

Attach funnels to your watering cans

when a rainstorm comes the funnels will catch the raindrops and fill the can.

Take the time to start tissue and paper towel rolls

Water plant roots, not leaves and flowers

water the base of the plant to reduce evaporation.

Brazil's National Indian Foundation believes there may be as many as 68 "uncontacted" groups around Brazil, although only 24 have been officially confirmed.

Anthropologists say almost all of these tribes know about western civilization and have sporadic contact with prospectors, rubber tappers and loggers, but choose to turn their backs on civilization, usually because they have been attacked.

Brazilian officials once tried to contact such groups. Now they try to protectively isolate them.

our tribes monitored by Meirelles include perhaps 500 people who roam over an area of about 1.6 million acres.

Loggers are closing in on the Indians' homeland — Brazil's environmental protection agency said Friday it had shut down 28 illegal sawmills in Acre state, where these tribes are located

plan to be the first to exchange vows and kisses in the conference room Weir converted into a wedding chapel that hosts 1,200 couples a year

says Weir

"It's a big deal."

One happy byproduct is that Weir should be able to get Hemm on his long-term health plan. They already have stood by each other in sickness and in health: Hemm has AIDS.

The towers would be about 50ft high and 8ft in diameter, and use a special type of plastic to absorb the CO2.