This refers to two things: (i) it is a rapid form of LOCOMOTION in which there are specific changes in stride pattern and GAIT; (ii) in most laboratories conducting behavioural research using animals, people will talk about ‘running their...

Horse Running - Edward Muybridge Running is defined as the fastest means for an animal to move on foot. It is defined in sporting terms as a gait in which at some point all feet are off the ground at the same time. It can be a form of both aerobic and...

YOU WOULDN'T know it from all the presidential candidates announcing lately, but there are other elections being contested in 1988 and even 1987. Or at least there are supposed to be. The Republicans, who have been stronger in presidential election years than in off...

Mary Rauh is driving up and down the steep highways of New Hampshire, searching for answers. It is an early December morning in icy Sunapee when she begins her trek, steering an old gray Buick sedan into the glaring sun toward Concord. She is...

Energy Policy: As gasoline prices once more top three bucks a gallon in California, we are reminded that our growing economy will require more energy, not less, and that inaction is not an option. For the third time since fall 2005, and the third time...

Last week I was speaking at a ladies’ luncheon in Palm Beach—if that doesn’t qualify as the most poofy column-opener in the history of this newspaper, then I cannot imagine what would—when I suddenly did a total Alec Baldwin. It happened during the Q&A, when...

Running, how it's helped me throughout my life.