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...critique of the exhibit at the New York Public Library "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World" [IDEAS, Nov. 6], Robert Hughes said, "This is a show about failure." However, there are thousands of successful utopian communities in operation today. Monasteries and other religious communities exist in all parts of the world from Tibet to America...
...search for a future ideal world is universal. It exists in every religion and every heart. This urge is a powerful, underappreciated force that draws us on our evolutionary journey, seeking perfection as we go. Hughes puts himself on the side of the defeatists when he declares the search for an ideal life has ended in failure. JAMES HELLMUTH Washington...
When endocrinologist David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Clinic at Boston's Children's Hospital, first met Bernadette and Wayne in May last year, he found that Wayne was 25 lbs. over his ideal body weight. Then came the shocker: on the nape of Wayne's neck was a dark, velvety area, an abnormality neither Bernadette nor Wayne's grandparents, whom he saw daily, had noticed. The skin condition indicated risk for Type 2 diabetes. While Wayne didn't yet have the disease, advised Ludwig, he would need to be monitored. Wayne was so stunned...
...anchored, our daughters made a mad dash for the upper deck in what would be the first of innumerable shrieking rides down the slide into clear 80[degree] water. Though the bow of the boat was wedged securely on sand, the water off the stern was 12 ft. deep, ideal for swimming and diving...
...That ideal, as it turns out, was a bit optimistic: By the 1 p.m. lunch break, GOP lawyers had called only two of as many as 20 potential witnesses, and Sauls seemed resigned to another long day in his robes...