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Life and death have achieved a new balance in five decades. An infant born in 1916 had a life expectancy of no more than 52 years. This year's child can expect to surpass three score...
...explains that the brain of the seagoing mammal, which is 20% to 40% larger than man's, seems to be at least as complex in structure. This, as well as the dolphin's clever mannerisms, suggests to him that its intelligence may be equal to or even surpass...
...efforts of the United States and Latin American to bring Cuba's economy to a grinding halt, to "prove it can't work"--despite the blockade--the renegade island's economy appears to be moving rapidly forward. Reports indicate that by next spring, Cuba's GNP will at last surpass its 1958 level...
Saturday the company danced its version of Swan Lake, which may surpass the Bolshoi's. One of the longest and most poignant classical ballets, inherited almost unaltered from Petipa and the nineteenth century Imperial Russian ballet, it provides the British company the ideal opportunity to show off its greatest strength -- the corps de ballet...
...perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you; for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable. I knew you could endure hunger and thirst; I knew that you loved the land of your nativity. But you surpass my hopes. Soldiers...