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...through a "midlife crisis" at about age 35. Just around then, says Klemme, a man often faces the jolting realization that he cannot accomplish all his early dreams, and, more important, begins to think seriously for the first time about the inevitability of death. Some flameouts simply sink into depression, others start to drink heavily. In any event, their work and their careers suffer. >The Climacteric Man. Executives in their late 40s or early 50s often begin to perform sloppily in jobs they did well for years. Boredom is one reason. Paul Armer, director of Stanford's computation center...
...never expected a subway bathroom to be the picture of cleanliness, but it turned out to be even more disgusting than I had anticipated. There were four cigarette butts in the sink. Of course, I remember the time that I was in a service station bathroom in Union. Conn., and there were flies zipping around the urinals. I had to admit that that wasn't a problem at Park: the flies were all lying around dead. But you could take a piss, so I did and felt better...
...university's Transportation Institute, Bynum prepared samples of asphalt combined with ground-up rubber obtained from old tires. Test results showed that the powdered rubber-used as a binding material-increases asphalt's overall cohesiveness so that it does not split when roadbeds shift slightly or sink. Bynum's findings seem to be a natural outgrowth of experiments by the rubber industry. Goodyear, for example, has discovered that liquid latex-not a waste product-improves the durability and traction of highway pavement...
Five years ago, while hitching a ride on a ten-man shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico, she encountered her only major incident of discrimination. "The captain thought the thing was going to sink or there was going to be a terrible storm," she said...
...trying. You bounce some more when, bypassing the triple-dip chrome barbells, you are harnessed to a rig called the wood roller massaging machine. Your reaction is immediate: "T-t-u-r-n-n i-t-t o-f-f-f!" BACK WALKING. All is calm in yoga class. "Sink deeply into the floor," whispers our guru, demonstrating the corpse position. "Float away." Class ends, but next to you, Herb Zimmerman, a Wall Street broker, is still floating. "I see a little creek," he mutters. "Trickling water. I'm actually there." Later, you and Herb are actually...