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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...112/74, a long way from 140/90, where hypertension, the condition most responsible for the strokes that kill more than 160,000 Americans every year, begins. And my resting heart rate, 60 beats per min., has not changed since college days. I feel almost euphoric and briefly entertain the naive notion that perhaps the aging process has overlooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diary Of A Mid-Life Checkup | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) His spare prose, particularly in his novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), inspired acolytes and parodists. But his writings also redefined the notion of individual heroism after the indiscriminate carnage of World War I. His lonely protagonists were existentialists before their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid The Mass-Market Noise, These Writers Made Themselves Heard | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the discovery reinforces the notion that the galaxy is full of other worlds, some of them almost certainly Earthlike--and at least a few of which must harbor life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weird World: Hubble snaps the first photo of a distant planet | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: codes of behavior, the very notion of "good acting." In their distinct ways--grace vs. power, gentility vs. menace, tux vs. torn T shirt--Fred Astaire and Marlon Brando represented the poles of 20th century popular culture. Astaire gave it class; Brando gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture: High And Low | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...toward the end of college, Sugarman's work on the Ivy Oration as well as the pleasure he gets from personal writings have made him increasingly consider a career as a writer--a notion he never entertained before. "I've never construed myself as a writer," he says. "But I can't escape the idea that it's something I enjoy so much and wouldn't it be nice to do it professionally...

Author: By Flora Tartakovsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sugarman Tries Out His New Material | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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