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...moodiness, and mystery, when every day feels so suddenly rude and ripe with expectations and revelations. My husband and I talk late into the night, trying to remember what it was like for us, even as we realize how much has changed for these kids. It feels ageless, middle age, when we are suspended between twin poles: the needs of our own parents as they hang on to us tighter and the needs of our children as they push us away. Who has time to stop and look closely at the calendar...
...when we do, when we gather with friends and count our blessings, what I find I'm most grateful for, nestled so deeply here in middle age, is being able to watch the candles flicker, and marvel at how many birthday wishes past have already come true...
Without Bob, who died Jan. 24 at age 82, it's highly unlikely I would have ever been President of the United States...
...Gaza Strip is a windswept sliver of the eastern Mediterranean Coast, bordered by Israel to the north and east and Egypt to the southwest. The territory is 360 km2 with a population of over one and a half million. Half of the population is under age 15 and four-fifths is under age 50. Gaza has the fifth-highest rate of population growth of any territory in the world. Unsurprisingly, it is among the most densely populated places on the planet, with the Strip’s refugee camps reaching 74,000 people per km2 (compared to less than...
...used the phrase that we’re living in the dark age of macroeconomics,” Krugman said. “Barbarism was they never knew better. [The] Dark Age is people forgot what the Greeks and Romans knew, and to some extent that’s where we are in economics...