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What all these new findings come down to, suggests Dr. Molly Wagster, program director of neuropsychology of aging research at the National Institute on Aging, is some of the oldest and simplest truths we've known from childhood. If your short-term memory is failing you now, she says, "try to remember your parents telling you to read a book, eat your fruits and vegetables, go outside and play, and get a good night's sleep...
...little more than didactic description accompanied by snapshot-like panels. Unlike last year's masterful "Golem's Mighty Swing," (see the TIME.comix review), about a Jewish baseball team, one never feels the author has any great love or knowledge of the sport he portrays. Perhaps the world's oldest sports metaphor, boxing as a racial/political crucible has been done much better...
...Church of the Nativity, one of the world's oldest working churches, has never been an especially peaceful place. The holy men who run it--Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic clerics--bicker over who gets to clean which piece of sacred wall, who can walk in which aisle. The theft in 1847 of the silver star that was meant to mark the precise place where Jesus was born is thought to have helped start the Crimean War. Seized and besieged by a host of armies over the centuries, the church has even inspired bickering among scholars, who argue...
...REACHED THE SUMMIT. TAMAE WATANABE, 63, retired office worker; of Mount Everest. The Yokohama native is the oldest woman to scale the planet's highest peak. She broke the record set by a 50-year-old Polish woman two years ago. Watanabe has previously climbed Dhaulagiri I and Gasherbrum II, both of which are also in the Himalayas and each over 8,000 meters high. DIED. DOUGLAS PIKE, 77, Vietnam aficionado who compiled over seven million pages of documents on the country, as well as penning eight novels and numerous articles on the Viet Cong; in Lubbock, Texas. Pike first...
Though the school year is coming to an end, the season for Harvard and Radcliffe rowers continues. For the Crimson heavyweights, the nation’s oldest intercollegiate event looms in the horizon—the Harvard-Yale regatta, to be raced for the 137th time on June...