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Feb 9, 2006

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." --Plato

Playground

Playgrounds are not just for kids anymore. At the Santa Claus Sports Institute in Finland, a group of elderly Finns leap around on climbing frames, swing on the swings, and bounce on a see-saw. It's all in the name of science; a Finnish study of 65 to 81 year olds found significant improvements in balance, speed and co-ordination after just three months of playground activity.