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...sentence. Although mortality had already permeated the composer's household (Mahler's beloved daughter died of scarlet fever a year before), his family was not destined to hang up their mourning garb quite yet. Another death was imminent. During a routine doctor's examination, Mahler was diagnosed with a fatal heart defect. Confronted with his mortality, Mahler was consoled by a new vision--immortality. His heart, his body and his memory would erode. His music, however, would not. Mahler was set to compose his legacy. His ink was his effigy; his fear of death was his muse. And the fervor...
...them as you walk through campus. Some of them are dialing as they cruise through the Yard, others briskly chatting as they linger near the steps of Sever. Are these folks so popular that being inaccessible for several hours would be fatal to their social lives? Why all of sudden is our campus studded with cell phone owners...
...mural for her Manhattan apartment, to the early '50s--no more than 10 years. The final four years of his life brought a string of pictorial failures and, at best, semi-successes: no talent could survive the alcoholic battering Pollock gave his. And then at age 44, a fatal car crash, after which the rest is the kind of pop hagiology that America reserves for its culture heroes...
...catch: it also doubles their risk of uterine cancer and triples their risk of potentially fatal blood clots, at least if they're over 50. Whew! How do you sort out all those numbers and decide whether to take the drug...
...terrorist who lobbed two grenades into a bus station in Beersheba last week, has also confessed to being responsible for two recent attacks in Hebron: a fatal stabbing and a grenade assault that wounded 14 soldiers. Apparently SALIM SARSOUR, 29, did all this while being courted by Shinbet, Israel's internal-security agency, to inform on the militant group Hamas. According to a Palestinian intelligence official, one of Sarsour's group, in detention after the Beersheba attack, claims Sarsour told him that he had multiple meetings with Shinbet officers; that he was given $1,000, in part...