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...story "Can We Learn To Beat The Reaper?" [STAYING HEALTHY, Jan. 21], Jeffrey Kluger wrote, "You're born, you grow up, you produce some young, then you get out of the way and leave room for the generation coming along." Kluger has struck on a profound law of senescence. The awesome force of evolution would long ago have selected for a longer human life-span if this strategy provided a better means to secure the success of our progeny. In fact, the reality is exactly the opposite: if we were to live substantially longer than we are useful in producing...
...grim reaper may not yet have named his victims, but he has a quota to fill - the only safe bet in the Middle East right now is that more people on both sides are slated to die in the coming weeks. Forty-six people were wounded by a Palestinian gunman on a shooting rampage in Jerusalem, Tuesday, only hours after Israeli forces killed four Hamas activists in the West Bank town of Nablus. Israeli forces had entered Nablus and also Tulkarm in response to last Thursday's attack on a Bat Mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Hadera, where...
...subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches of Flanders and the murderous October Revolution. Luckily for him, Signac did not have the gift of prophecy, and even his anarchism belonged to the Belle Epoque...
...Just because Helmut Newton is 80 and has a major new show of his work doesn't mean he's getting soft. Hardly. One of his landscapes, The Grim Reaper, above, was shot for Absolut Vodka. The firm chose not to use it because it was deemed too dark for a mainstream audience. Newton recently sat down at the Barbican with a menagerie of onlookers - students, fans and perverts - for an interview...
...wife, he had garnered a level of public sympathy not usually available to adulterers, perhaps because news of his sickness and "good friend" struck at about the same time. New Yorkers are both practical (grateful to the mayor for reviving the city) and romantic (a man looking the Grim Reaper in the eye should be allowed a second chance at happiness). It helped that Nathan wasn't an intern, that she was taking him in sickness, not in health, and that the mayor was following the first rule of civilized divorce: dwell not on your ex's faults...