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...Nelson Mandela, Mhlaba was one of four members of the prison's "High Organ," which negotiated with the apartheid government for better conditions and the release of political prisoners. Freed in 1989, he went on to serve as a regional official and as High Commissioner to Uganda and Rwanda. Upon Mhlaba's death, Mandela called him "one of the real stalwarts of our movement, a person who in his life and work embodied the highest values our struggle stood for and strove towards...
...have dirty fingernails, his saints have calloused feet and sunburn. As his art evolved he learned to present them in starkly lit, deeply shadowed space that lent them majesty even as his grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow in part from ideas that Caravaggio placed...
...sensitive to some noises. Baby girls hear certain ranges of sound better. And the divergence gets even bigger in adults. As for smell, a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience in 2002 showed that women of childbearing age were many times more sensitive than men to several smells upon repeated exposure. (Another study has found that heterosexual women have the most sensitive smell and homosexual men have the least...
Perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science is Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The first African-American woman at M.I.T. to get a Ph.D.--in theoretical physics in 1973--Jackson knows a thing or two about overcoming discrimination. Shot at and spit upon by whites while a college student, she went on to do research at Fermilab and Bell Labs. In 1995 she became chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and in 2003 was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general-scientific society...
...typical of Henry Grunwald's unyielding honesty and his precise mind that he disapproved of using the words "passed away" to refer to someone who has died. So I will honor him in reporting what is sad news in the unequivocal language he would have insisted upon. Henry Anatole Grunwald, one of the most distinguished managing editors in TIME's history and for decades a pre-eminent figure in American journalism, died last week. He was 82 and in his later years had faced a number of difficulties, which, being Henry, he treated as opportunities. Last year he suffered...