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...only because of widespread ageism, Ronald Reagan's victories in the South and elsewhere should spark a brief moment of nonpartisan cheer among the nation's senior citizens. After all, the 69-year-old candidate did triumph at least briefly over the suspicion that anybody past middle age is a candidate for nothing but the pasture. To be sure, the issue of Reagan's age is not typical. It does make sense for voters to take a cold, actuarial look at anybody seeking the White House. But the more prevalent American way of judging the elderly...
...interview with TIME (see box), Mugabe also vowed not to disrupt the potentially prosperous capitalist economy he will inherit. Many local businessmen feel that the coming of peace and stable government could spark an unprecedented boom in Zimbabwe. With the country's main agricultural, mining and manufacturing industries freed from the shackles of the international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence, economists expect a 3% rise in the gross domestic product this year and a 15% increase in exports...
...your head," they are usually told before being shuttled off to psychologists and psychiatrists. Now comes a report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association urging doctors to take a closer look at the patient's physical condition. Endocrinologist Richard Spark of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital writes that the problem in many cases is medical, not mental. Using sensitive radioimmunoassay techniques that can pick up infinitesimal levels of hormones in the blood, Dr. Spark and his team studied 105 impotent men, aged 18 to 75. They found that...
...study of 105 impotent men aged 18 to 75, conducted by Dr. Richard F. Spark, associate professor of Medicine, challenges the widely accepted view that almost all sexual impotence results from depression, stress or other psychological factors...
...will typically be nothing but a melodic line, with no sharps or flats, no tempo or dynamic markings-just a clue." How to flesh out the melody, how to pace it and color it, when to use voices and when instruments, and even where a touch of improvisation might spark things along: these are decisions Michael makes. He plans the Waverly programs around a theme. Their annual December concerts in a 12th century Spanish apse at the Cloisters range over medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Christmas selections. Recently, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they encompassed "The Gothic Era." Next week...