If you’re the sort of person who remains locked in a private, perpetual tug of war over whether the greatest singer this country’s ever known is Aretha Franklin or Whitney Houston, perhaps you’re also the sort of person who then spares a thought for
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Lloyd Kaufman, a leading figure in the study of a phenomenon called the moon illusion, an optical trick puzzled over for millenniums by the likes of Aristotle and Kepler, died on Aug. 20 at his home in the Floral Park neighborhood of Queens. He was