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According to Dr. Robert Cantu, a Concord, Mass., sports-medicine specialist, athletic ability consists of three elements. Endurance generally peaks in the late 20s and is sustainable into the mid-30s, then deteriorates slowly, at about 1% a year. Strength peaks later, perhaps not until the 40s, then deteriorates even more slowly. Coordination, including reflexes, can be maintained at nearly 100% capability until...
...abstract painting what Picasso, in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, did for the figure. His emblematic work (for Americans) was White Square on White, 1918 -- that unreproducible, fierce, magical white square, canted on a slightly warmer white ground, which has been in the Museum of Modern Art since the '30s and has become a central icon of the reductive impulse. But now we see in depth what went before and came after it: a fascinating spectacle...
Today: windy and cold, flurries likely early, becoming partly sunny in the afternoon, highs in the mid 30s. Northwest wind 20 to 30 mph with higher gusts. Tonight: partly cloudy, windy and cold...
...Angeles County Museum of Art. "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant- Garde in Nazi Germany" is the result of five years of patient detective work led by art historian Stephanie Barron, whose specialty is the art and cultural politics of Germany in the '20s and '30s. With the help of photographs that had lain unconsulted since the end of World War II in the archives of the National Gallery in Berlin, Barron was able to reconstruct not only the contents of the show, work by work, but also their hanging on the walls of the Archaeological Institute that...
Freedom has come for Mandela, and it may be nearing for all blacks who long to rule in their own land. But the youth are emerging as apartheid's saddest and potentially most dangerous legacy: as many as 5 million young people, from their early 30s down to perhaps 10, mostly school dropouts who are unable to get jobs and unprepared to make constructive contributions to society. They are the deprived, activists, layabouts or thieves. They live in bleak urban townships, where the standard four-room house shelters an average of 10 people. They are often murderous supporters of rival...