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...almost perpetual combat. Among the company's 119 men, dozens of Purple Hearts have been awarded for injuries suffered in battle. "Exceptional things are happening out there, bits and pieces of extraordinary bravery," says Foley. At the same time, Foley sees these streets stripping his young charges of their youth. "People outside have no idea of the overall effect of this. Eighteen-year-old kids are having to go through this. I'm watching some of them in my company and how quickly they're being made to grow up. It's chilling...
Scientists are as obsessed with the question of why the superold survive and thrive as Ponce de Leon was to find the Fountain of Youth. They want to understand why the Japanese islands of Okinawa are home to the world's largest population of centenarians, with almost 600 of its 1.3 million inhabitants living into their second century--many of them active and looking decades younger than their actual years. Like weekend visitors on the summer ferry to Martha's Vineyard, scientists and sociologists clog the boats to Sardinia and Nova Scotia, Canada, to see why those craggy locales harbor...
...assembling scraps of historical evidence into (mostly) plausible surmises, scholar Stephen Greenblatt has produced Will in the World (Norton; 406 pages), a dazzling and subtle biography, due Sept. 20, that teases out possibilities in the bard's inner and outer life, like the much argued conjecture that in youth, Shakespeare was secretly Catholic in an England where the old faith was being suppressed. You may not always be persuaded by Greenblatt's intuitive leaps, but you'll have great fun watching him jump. --By Richard Lacayo...
...brash young millionaire among aging ex-communists, but Hungary's ruling Socialists are hoping Ferenc Gyurcsany, their new Prime Minister-designate, can rebuild the party's tattered image in time for elections in 2006. Gyurcsany, 43, who's moving up from Youth and Sports Minister, made his fortune by buying state enterprises at fire-sale prices in the early 1990s. In a party vote, he beat an old-guard politician named Peter Kiss by a margin of 40% after Peter Medgyessy, the former PM, officially quit. Although lacking in experience, Gyurcsany is not lacking in confidence. "He believes in himself...
...proved disastrous: in 1968, a Japanese marathoner who had won bronze in the Tokyo Games committed suicide after injuries looked set to prevent him from attending the Mexico City Olympics, where he had hoped to better his third-place finish for the sake of his country. Today's Japanese youth appear to feel less obligation to prove themselves on the global stage, aware perhaps that in this new touchy-feely era, it's permissible to focus not just on serving team and country but on their own emotional well-being. "I'm glad we've turned a new page...