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Princeton (8-11-0 overall) has been led thus far by Co-Rookie of the Week Michael Hazen, an outfielder who batted a robust .636 (7-for-11), with seven RBI, over the weekend. In a doubleheader against Yale, which the teams split, Hazen went a perfect 6-for-6, and had a streak of seven consecutive hits...
...tired album--the musical equivalent of microwaved leftovers--but it has nonetheless sold more than a million copies. And the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over, a wimpy, coldhearted reunion album that was put together, in part, by Unplugged staff members and heavily promoted on MTV, has sold a robust 4 million...
Musicals, revivals, fresh stagings of the classics, all are vital to a robust theater; but new scripts are its lifeblood. What accounts for London's superiority in nurturing them? Lower production costs, a larger number of subsidized theaters, and a more informed audience are among the usual factors cited-and 400 years of theatrical tradition doesn't hurt either. Arthur Miller, one of several American playwrights who of late have been more warmly appreciated in England than at home, points out that the London theater allows plays to survive and even flourish in a middle range between hit or flop...
This is a bold statement in an age that seeks to reduce imagination to a set of neurological functions. Creativity is not a word that comes easily to many physicians, but Sacks strongly believes that invention is a measure, if not a definition, of health. His own robust literary output flows from different sources. "It's the mixture of physiology with poetic and often tragic accounts of the subjective aspects of being ill, of neurological syndromes which fascinates the two halves of me," he says. "I might go to an Ibsen play one night and a physiology meeting the next...
...picture of 4 million doddering, medically needy centenarians is not pretty, but the prospect may not be so grim. People who make it past 85 are a hardy group, says Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging. About 30% still live in the community and "are robust in the sense that they are able to lift shopping bags, walk half a mile and climb stairs...