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...born in New York City. I live and work in New York City. And for as long as I can remember, New Yorkers have complained about the hordes of tourists that descend upon Manhattan during the holiday season...
...wrong. I'm not a chauvinistic New Yorker. That Woody Allen superciliousness thing is old hat - and was wrong-headed to begin with. I despise the smugness of New Yorkers who think they live in the center of the universe, who think that all knowledge resides on this little island. New York is on the edge, not in the center; it's an anomaly, not the norm...
...long ago, few Rosemont students were considered college material. Reared in downtown Baltimore's roughest ZIP code, almost all of them live in poverty. The lucky ones could expect to take classes someday at a community college, but nearly two-thirds of students in this troubled district don't make it through high school. On standardized tests conducted three years ago, not a single Rosemont student read at grade level...
...clearly, he couldn't read. He struggled to recall the words he needed. But all that might have been tolerable except that chemotherapy had begun to make him sick to his stomach, and the statistics for Stage-4 colon cancer gave him a 20 percent chance to live...
AGING GRACEFULLY According to reports in Psychology and Aging, older adults are more likely to live longer if they feel that they have control over their lives or fulfill roles that they find important. In a national study, elderly Americans who strongly identified with being a parent, grandparent or care provider tended to adopt more healthful behavior and took better care of themselves. Folks who felt that they had no control were more likely to smoke, drink and suffer from obesity--all risk factors for early death...