Eighty-three

I'm eighty-three years old.

And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

This series of buildings looks like an ancient home for kings. Huge rounded and box-like buildings have windows in the shape of circles and triangles. The structure is surrounded by water. From a distance, it appears to float on a lake. Kahn spent the last twelve years of his life on the project. It was completed in nineteen eighty-three, nine years after his death. Because of Kahn, experts say, one of the poorest countries in the world has one of the most beautiful public buildings on Earth.

One study was begun in nineteen eighty-three by Charles Hennekens of Harvard University Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He began studying more than twenty-two-thousand healthy male doctors over the age of forty. Half of the doctors in the study took an aspirin every other day. The other half took an inactive pill. Five years later, Doctor Hennekens reported that the men who took aspirin reduced their chances of having a heart attack by forty-four percent.