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Ultimately, the number of depressed older people in our country will decrease when we get better at acknowledging their importance in our society. As baby boomers approach their mid-50s and move toward Golden Pond, it is essential that we transform society's attitudes toward older people and build institutions that provide constructive cultural, economic and social roles for them. Depression is not only more common than the common cold but also infinitely more dangerous. Depression and suicide in old age send a negative message to all who would grow old. The first baby boomer will turn 65 just...
...blues; imagine a middle-aged South American Robert Johnson and you've pretty much got it. He with two acoustic guitarists on either side. He started out with the song "Fadas" a graceful, toe-tapping tune that that skips along as lightly as a stone across a pond. Next he flowed into the goodhearted song "Diz Que Fui Por Ai"; during the instrumental break, he couldn't resist dancing around his stool as his guitarists carried the melody. It was pure enchantment; not just Brazilian music at its best, but art at its finest as well. Melodia's set carried...
...tour the bus stops at Catedral de Sao Sabastiao do Rio de Janeiro, a modern cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess of the sea. The tour...
...Monday, Lieut. Colonel Yossi Mor peered through the 3-in.-thick bulletproof glass on the guard tower at Rachel's Tomb. The Jewish holy site had been under fire from three sides for four hours. Bullets slammed into the glass, bludgeoning it with starfish cracks, like ice on a pond. Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct line...
Often immigrants families who want to settle in Cambridge but cannot afford the skyrocketing rent will choose to double up in a single apartment, often in a high-rise building like the Fresh Pond Towers, according to Jean Jeune, director of the Haitian Multiservice Center...