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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...
Among the best documents of Coltrane's extraordinary energy is "The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings," a four-CD box set recently released on his birthday (September 23), 30 years after his unfortunate death. This collection, which includes every recorded performance (three previously unreleased) from Coltrane's live engagement at the famous Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City, is of particularly high quality...
...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...
...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...