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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...
...author; in Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that Pippi, whose name was coined by her daughter, struck a chord in part because she "has power...but never misuses...
Fortunately there were no casualties to the anthrax scare that struck the nation’s mailrooms four months ago—though workers wore gloves for two months...
...from the surface and possess an almost three-dimensional quality. The images shift slightly and appear to rotate as the viewer’s perspective changes, giving them a sense of life. Moreover, daguerreotypes possess greater individuality than photographs. Where from a single photographic negative, innumerable prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight on, the image presented is the traditional positive, but as perspective shifts, the negative appears—in this manner, simultaneously occupying the normal and reverse of photographs...
...enough in general. Steve is such a lovable character that we felt like we should do something to show our appreciation,” Cox says. “We started thinking about how we could thank him. We were going to get him a stripper but we struck on the idea of him going on vacation...