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Author Gail Sheehy has been examining human behavior for three decades. In 1976, she wrote her breakthrough book, Passages, which looks at life's transitions and has sold 5 million copies. In her new book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, Sheehy, 68, tackles a taboo topic: the sexuality of older women and how they can live a long passionate life. Sheehy spoke with TIME's ANDREA SACHS...
...topic of students playing football for the love of the game rather than for scholarship money or a future in the pros, Berg said, is “a real easy story...
...people know the perils of drug abuse better than a 55-year-old former schoolteacher whose job it used to be to teach that very topic--which is why it's particularly ironic that she's a cocaine addict today. More than 30 years ago, Gwen--who prefers to keep it to one name when discussing her addiction--spent her days teaching in the Virginia school system and drafting the schools' drug-and-alcohol-abuse curriculum. She spent her nights researching the subject firsthand...
...unique mix of contemplation and impatience, what “The Thinker” might do to pass the time. In his hand, he gripped a single page of handwritten notes, the outline of a speech ostensibly titled, “Faculty Diversity: Research Agenda.”The topic was benign enough, but the president’s demeanor suggested this would be no ordinary academic recitation, recalled two people who saw and overhead him out in the hallway. He looked uneasy, they said, and was still jotting down notes in the few minutes before he spoke.By every indication...
...uproar at Harvard was also a hot topic of discussion at several private dinner parties the president attended last semester in Cambridge, New York, and Washington, according to people who were there. Two individuals who attended separate parties with Summers recalled hearing the president, in reference to the Faculty’s criticism of his leadership, say the same thing: “It has not increased my faith in humanity...