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Meet Harold Rosen, a slight, gentle-mannered 70-year-old Cal Tech Ph.D. who predates the space age by a dog's age. Yet every time you watch a live-television feed from distant parts of the earth, chances are the signal has bounced off one of the satellites he helped design for Hughes Aircraft in his 37-year career. "He is uncommonly brilliant," says his biggest fan, younger brother Ben, 63. "He's a national treasure...
...should not become regular and accepted is the stifling classroom forum, dominated by graduate students desperate for dissertation advisors, recommendations or employment at the expense of undergraduates. Tolerance should not exist for a classroom where equal opportunity is an obscene joke, and comfort and confidence is but a distant dream...
...reason the issue of persona and role-playing becomes oddly important on this album is the extreme emphasis placed on Stipe's voice. Most songs seem engineered so as to push Stipe's vocals right up to the front of the music, with the instrumentals forming a more distant, solid layer of background noise. Stipe's style and diction has also changed somewhat from previous albums. He sports a breathy, melodic fullness, especially on the single "E-bow the Letter," which is a departure from the stylized, wavery thinness on which his career was built. Certain pronunciations also seem peculiar...
That day, however, is still a distant sci-fi dream--or nightmare, if one cares to dwell on the social and economic impact of such a development. In the meantime, little can be done for those who refuse to do for themselves. Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, chief of geriatrics at Boston's Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged, pointedly warns, "Geriatric medicine starts in the 40s." And the NIA's Sprott cautions that "the difference comes in life-style changes, not in the pills you take." Health and biomedical researchers all agree that for now, the best offense against the ravages...
...crisp snap of an October morn. The distant roar of a football stadium. The chatty drone of Oscar hopefuls being hyped. The inescapable thud as Michael Crichton's next best seller hits bookstores every-where. Yes, fall brings not only nature's harvest but culture's as well. A selective look at the new season's glories...