Word: thriving
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Here's a healthier way to look at menopause. It's one of those facts of life, like bipedalism, that set Homo sapiens apart from the nonhuman primates. Their females decline pretty rapidly after they stop being fertile. Ours continue to thrive for decades. Scientists still argue about the details, but women have long taken advantage of nature's largesse to help rear grandchildren, start new ventures and, with any luck, pass on some accumulated wisdom...
Tickled to Death (Scribners; 231 pages; $13.95) is a collection of short stories, only one of them featuring Author Simon Brett's delightful amateur detective, the hammy and frequently out-of-work actor Charles Paris. Brett's ten Paris novels thrive on their bitchy wit and backstage authenticity. Outside those environs his writing can become fey and whimsical. But Brett is a specialist at sketching protagonists who are at once charming and palpably rotten, so that their ultimate escape or exposure remains a matter of genuine suspense...
Gorbachev is equally adamant in his desire to ban any research, testing or development of Star Wars technology. Arms-control negotiations at the summit could thrive or die on the SDI issue...
...will depend, as it has all along, on the guardian superpowers. Even so, there are signs that a more realistic view of Western Europe and its prospects is gaining strength and currency, based on the pragmatic recognition that the constituent nation-states of the region will survive--and can thrive--for some time to come...
Ryshelle M. McCadney ’07 said she stayed at Thrive, visiting different booths, for two hours. “I didn’t see, hear, or read anything I hadn’t heard before. But it was nice to see people on campus coming together for something healthy, or something that promotes health. I saw people I hadn’t seen in a while...