Word: beyond
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...Merrill Lynch, for example, began to offer money-market accounts with a check-writing feature. As the lines between banks and brokers blurred, Glass-Steagall came under repeated attack, starting in the 1980s. "I spent a lot of time lobbying Congress to convince them that we needed to look beyond the parochial interests of banks, brokerages, insurance companies and mutual funds," says former AmEx boss Robinson, now investing in tech start-ups. "We needed to view them as one industry. I was just a little ahead of my time...
During the 17 years--17 years--that this situation continues, Lin forms a strong attachment to Manna Wu, a young nurse at his base hospital. That is, she was young when she and Lin first met, but Manna has grown understandably restive during a long courtship that never gets beyond some furtive hand holding. (Army rules forbid unmarried couples from even walking together outside the compound walls.) She keeps urging Lin to divorce his wife, and every year he goes back to his village and tries to do so. And every year Shuyu agrees to his request but then changes...
...inevitable as taxes. No one really knows if human longevity will come up against a fixed barrier somewhere or if, like the sound barrier, it is there only to be broken. Some gerontologists say the limit of the average life-span is 85 years; others, 95, 100, 150 and beyond. No one understands the economic barriers either. Ronald Lee, a demographer at the University of California, Berkeley, calculates that for each year we add to the average life-span, the economy will have to grow 1% to pay for our care...
Senior writer Jeffrey Kluger's latest book, about moons, is called Journey Beyond Selene...
...that half a million Americans will die this year of a disorder that is often discussed in terms that make it seem less like a disease than an implacable enemy. What tuberculosis was to the 19th century, cancer is to the 20th: an insidious, malevolent force that frightens people beyond all reason--far more than, say, diabetes or high blood pressure...