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Article: Life cycles.(M.E.M.O)(end of the line for Life magazine)(Column)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- June 12, 2007
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LIFE DIES" will be the label for this column in my computer files. Life dies? Because of global warming? Is this a statement of the human condition, life being "a sexually transmitted disease with a terminal prognosis"? Is this the unavoidable topic the late Dr. Lewis Thomas wanted Americans to talk about: death? He noted: "There's an awful lot of it going around these days."
Such cheerful sayings offer promise, but my mind is on something more banal, the realm of the banal being its natural habitat. The occasion is a recent announcement from Life magazine (April 20 issue), a sliver of a publication tucked into our Sunday newspaper and almost lost among the ads.