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...third chapter, "Why?", is a combination of the history of the Julian, Gregorian and Jewish calendars. Gould details the mathematics behind the leap year system and explains calendrical curiosities from Hanukkah to George Washington's birthday. Gould attempts to expand into a commentary on the philosophical relationship between reality and scientific inquiry, but does not give himself the vocabulary, subject matter or space to say anything profound...
...every standard medical and logical, Henry Jackson, lying unconscious in a New Jersey hospital on his 32nd birthday, was finished. Massive internal hemorrhaging had drained him of 90% of his blood. His level of hemoglobin--the vital, oxygen-carrying compound in his red cells--had plummeted from a normal reading of 13 to an ominous 1.7, a number that one of his doctors characterized as "incompatible with survival." A blood transfusion could save him, but his wife, torn between her husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions because of biblical references...
However, for her birthday on Sept. 15, Eisenberg's son gave her a one-week trip to Argentina. She is now looking forward to returning home in November...
...live longer on average and enjoy greater health and prosperity. But even more significant, the traditional demarcation points between youth and age are starting to blur. Amid images of George Bush parachuting out of a plane at 72 and baby boomers blowing out the candles on their 50th-birthday cakes, a growing number of citizens (call them seniors at your own risk) are radically redefining what it means...
...graying of America also challenges traditional notions of retirement that once made a worker's 65th birthday a career ender. That milestone--decreed by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the 1880s when the average life expectancy was just 45--typically came with a party and a pension, plus plenty of time for golf and the grandkids. But many seniors today are moving on to new careers, not only because they can use the money but also because they can and want to keep working...