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Michael, who was born in Los Angeles, believes his birthday, Dec. 21, has an almost mystical significance. "It's the longest night of the year and the shortest day," he explains. "So this is a very important balancing point for me -- it's where I feel my maximum strength. As the days grow shorter, I get stronger and stronger. Somehow, maybe the moment in which the clock has first started ticking and the moment when you first make your entrance into this world are important in some...
...adjoining centers that allow easy mingling and interaction between 55 children, from 18 months to five years old, and 24 elders over 60. Separated only by windows and hallways, the old and the young have plenty of opportunities to visit one another. Shared activities such as cooking and birthday parties are planned by the staff, but informal get-togethers happen spontaneously. "I tell my friends what they are missing," says Eva DaRosa, a 79-year-old great-grandmother whose smile brightens whenever children are nearby...
Born Again--Venerable President Derek C. Bok apparently was less than thrilled about his 60th birthday two weeks ago. In fact, he told a Crimson reporter he felt "awful." But never one for self-pity, the new sextagenarian set out to reclaim some of his lost youth over Spring Break--in Bermuda. Bok told the Crimson he had a blast on his tropical vacation, and especially enjoyed riding mopeds with his daughter...
...Haiti's most recent strongman was reminiscent of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's ignominious departure in 1986. On the morning of his 53rd birthday, after seven days of protests and a general strike, Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family were driven to the airport on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince last week, placed aboard a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter and flown into refuge in the U.S. Thus ended the turbulent 18-month rule of Haiti's fourth leader in four years...
...often on Houston's impoverished Northside, dead babies are forgotten. The infant-mortality rate in this Hispanic barrio rivals that of Poland. Almost 16 out of every 1,000 babies will perish before their first birthday, compared with a national infant-death rate of 10 per 1,000 Countless others are born too early or too small, presaging a wretched future of long-term health and learning problems. The U.S. is a First World nation afflicted by a Third World curse...