Word: ages
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...does long and exacting still cut it in today's information age...
...tell if yours are among the 670,000 American children ages 10 to 18 with high blood pressure? It's not the sort of thing you can catch by putting your child's arm in a cuff at the free monitoring station in your local grocery. You should have a test done by a doctor, who will consult special tables that indicate the normal range of blood pressure for a particular child's age, height and sex. If the doctor finds an abnormal result, she will repeat the test over a period of months to make sure the reading...
Still trim and vigorous in what she allows only as her seventh decade, Ross quickly took charge of the discussion about her years working and living with William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 until 1987. Shawn died in 1992 at the age of 85, leaving sons Allen, a composer married to former New Yorker writer Jamaica Kincaid, and Wallace, an actor and playwright. Shawn's wife of 64 years, Cecille...
...that resembles a Walter Mitty fantasy: a denizen of jazz joints, racetracks and classy restaurants. He was also an ardent mate. "After 40 years, our love-making had the same passion, the same energies," Ross writes. "It never deteriorated, our later wrinkles, blotches, and scars of age notwithstanding...
DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...