1) The Atlantic Monthly has long attempted to provide a design environment in which two disparate traditions –literary and journalist—can co-exist in pleasurable dignity.

The articles in the front of the magazine, which once flowed into one another, now stand on their own, to gain prominence.

During her tenure here The Atlantic has won more than 300 awards fro visual excellence.

The artist Nicholas Gaetano contributed as well: he redrew our colophon (the figure of Neptune that appears on the contents page) and created the symbols that will appear regularly on this page ( a rendition of our building), on the Puzzler page, above the opening of letters, and on the masthead.

Gaetano, whose work managers to combine stylish clarity and breezy strength, is the cover artist of the issue.

2)

You need the basic 22 plus the largely decennial supplements to bright the total to 31.

Yet in 10 years’ time a revised version of the whole caboodle, called the New Dictionary of Natonal Biography , will be published.

As soon as her committee had whittled the numbers down, the professional problems of an editor began.

Malefactors whose crimes excite a permanent interest have received hardly less attention than benefactors.

Her most characteristic feature is a head attached to a too small, spindly body.

3) But, as any geriatric ward shows that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy.

Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean. 随着社会资源过分扩展（暗指用不到的地方） ,政治变得卑鄙，人的寿命虽然可以借助医学而延长，但延长了的生命往往不尽人意，因为别人会疏忽你，而这又让人感到羞辱和丢脸。

What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meager increments of unenjoyed life. It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources—not least medical ones, like illegal steroids—are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes without saying, the logical extension of longevism—the “abolition” of death—would not be a solution but only an exacerbation. To air these predicaments is not anti-medical spleen—a churlish reprisal against medicine for its victories—but simply to face the growing reality of medical power not exactly without responsibility but with dissolving goals. 不断分裂的目标。 （提出这些不利情况并不表示自己有一股反对医学的恶气，或者因为医学取得一个又一个胜利而对其实施粗暴报复。）

Inflated expectations: 膨胀的或者过多的期盼。

4) But the trump card is the Andes mountain range .

5) Willpower isn’t some immutable trait we are either born with or not. It is a skill that can be developed, strengthened  and targeted to help us achieve our goals

Positive willpower helps us overcome inertia and focus on the future.

To focus and mobilize your efforts, set a deadline.

6) Investors seeking a cheap, no-frills way to sell privatization shares need look no further than the postbox.

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