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Apparent in his approach to aging is a drive “to move out into the ‘lane of high hopes,’” not to chase perfection but to stay alive to the effort.

He was surprised that Charlie and Jamie, both now so alive to the possibility of dramatic change in the financial markets, were less alert and responsive to the possibilities outside those markets.

A recent poll of corporate chief executives indicates that the business leaders are fully alive to negative trends that may yet be undiscerned by ordinary Americans.

Whatever else may have changed, the impulse that’s guided Skarsgård all his life — to keep creating, to stay alive to the moment — remains intact.

Early market action Tuesday suggested investors are alive to the risk of those cracks in the rally’s facade, with all major indexes trading firmly in the red and the Cboe Group’s VIX volatility gauge rising 13% to the highest levels in two weeks.