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...first is simply being an adult. Almost everybody has very low levels of cholesterol at birth, with LDL measuring around 50 mg per deciliter of blood. But by the time most people reach adulthood, they have at least twice that amount. "One of our problems as a species," says Virgil Brown, a cardiologist at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center, "is that we don't remove LDL as fast as other animals...
...guests, including the President and Nancy Reagan, were paying tribute to national leaders of the arts, not politics. The sixth annual Kennedy Center honorees for lifetime achievement-Dancer-Choreographer Katherine Dunham, 73, Director Elia Kazan, 74, Singer Frank Sinatra, 68, Actor Jimmy Stewart, 75, and Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, 87-were presented with the rainbow-ribboned medals during a gala black-tie reception and special performance. Said Sinatra: "I'm way up in the air. This is the most coveted award you can win." And they all did it their...
...Apollo program featured similar safety measures, but not all disasters can be handled so smoothly. In 1967 Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, and his two crew members were asphyxiated in a launching-pad fire at Cape Canaveral...
...Virgil ("Gus") Grissom died in 1967, when he and his two crew members of Apollo 204 were asphyxiated in a launching-pad fire at Cape Canaveral...
Tastes change; each era meets the classics on new ground. At the approach of the 18th century, John Dryden offered Virgil as a master of the heroic couplet: "Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,/ And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate." During the Victorian era, Aeneas emerged in the English of William Morris and other writers as a Romantic brooder well versed in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty. Fitzgerald's version, a century hence, may seem equally dated. But if translations capture the essence of their culture, then this Aeneid, in its supple beauty...