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...geriatric experts say they are seeing that the stresses many older people are already under--such as isolation, health problems and financial worries--have been aggravated by the domestic terrorist attacks, the war and the recession. Gene Cohen, a geriatric psychiatrist and author of The Creative Age, is midway through a retirement study of 100 people ages 60 to 89 and has detected in their lives new practical and emotional problems. Take the longer waits at airports because of security checks and the restrictions imposed on passengers during flights. "Can you imagine standing in line for two hours with arthritis...
...year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through labor. Their crime: parents labeled as enemies of the people. The nameless protagonist is the son of doctors, while Luo's father is an eminent dentist who threatened national security by revealing a state...
After a night of sleep, Harvard rebounded Sunday afternoon against the St. Francis. The score was tied 4-4 at the midway mark, but in the second half, Harvard dominated the game. The Crimson never trailed and came...
Princeton played the toughest of the three, knocking out Harvard quarterback Neil Rose midway through the game and gaining a half-time lead. But under the tutelage of the seniors and with help from junior wideout Carl Morris, backup freshman quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick paced Harvard to a 28-26 victory...
...Crimson showed few ill effects from its quadruple-overtime victory over Hartford early on, but midway through the second half, the Huskies began to take control...