Word: graying
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Annan's predecessors as U.N. Secretary-General--Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali--were a gray parade of deliberately inoffensive floats. But Annan, in his three years on the job, has shown himself to be a brass band of hope, ideas and energy. His critics fault the slow pace of reform he has brought to the U.N. They argue that even armed with a management degree from M.I.T., he is badly overmatched by the U.N.'s thick bureaucracy. But mostly they chew away at his idealistic, moral world view. The U.N. continues to have its problems...
...into a cup, coughing on command, listening for inaudible beeps over headphones, walking fast uphill on a treadmill as a young woman took my blood pressure, placing my left hand on her lovely shoulder, which drove my blood pressure up--and democracy was evident everywhere. Muslim women in elegant gray chadors sat whispering in the same waiting room with stolid farmers and their wives, geezers and geezerettes next to minor Pooh-bahs and nabobs yakking on cell phones. Snatches of French and German drifted by, and Japanese, and Minnesotan ("So you think it's going to be a long time...
...GLOWING GRAY MATTER Having the Alzheimer's gene takes its toll--even when the memory is still intact. A special MRI shows that asymptomatic folks who are at genetic risk for Alzheimer's work harder to answer easy mental tests than other people. How can doctors tell? On the MRI, the area of the brain responsible for thinking lights up more than other areas. The tool may one day be used as a kind of mental stress test to detect Alzheimer's earlier, much as a treadmill tests for heart disease today...
...touch-typist. ("Remember, he's a former reporter," one staffer reminds me, which in fact did nothing to reassure me at the time. I've been in newsrooms. I've seen journalists both hunting and pecking.) He "banged it out" sitting atop the Mark Twain riverboat on a gray and sultry Monday afternoon after a morning in which he was up before dawn to appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters on the boat, headlined a rally in Quincy, Ill., conducted an onboard town hall meeting about tax reform...
...wearing a medium gray suit with a royal blue tie. He was nice looking - distinguished, with a slim build and light brown hair peppered with gray. He mentioned that he'd gone to Harvard (wouldn't tell us what year he graduated but said he was under 37 when pressed) and been an English major. I absolutely believed that he was a Harvard grad, or at the very least, extremely well educated. He was very well-spoken, very, very bright - not verbose, but he was articulate and animated. Somehow we began talking about Shakespeare (he said he loved...