Word: centenarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age by Dr. Thomas T. Perls, assistant professor of medicine, and Margery H. Silver clinical instructor in psychology, draws on their research with the New England Centenarian Study (NECS). Perls and Silver are the director and associate director of NECS, respectively...
...stories that are hard to miss. But he was the master of the small story, the kind we tend to miss. "I have resolutely pursued irrelevance out there on the back roads," he said. And so, with his warm baritone and neighborly mien, Kuralt traveled America to discover centenarian entertainers, whittlers, slingshot artists, brickmakers and an astonishing host of the overlooked, transforming them into roadside reminders in the media fast lane of a real world with real people in real time. Irrelevance, indeed...
...folklore forecaster Forecast: "Colder than a well-digger's wallet...Snow will be frequently heavy, and winter will come on quicker than a duck on a June bug." Methodology: Woolly bear caterpillars. Analyzing the thickness of the coat and the size of the critter's dark-colored ends, the centenarian made his forecast at the 24th annual Woollybear Festival in Vermilion, Ohio, in October...
Roth finds this frustrating. "I think caloric restriction could take us beyond a life-span of 80," he says, "maybe even 120. After all, you rarely see a fat centenarian." Given modern dietary habits, however, it may be more practical to find out what part of the metabolic system caloric restriction operates on and then imitate that effect pharmacologically. "Essentially," explains Roth, "we'd use a pill to trick a cell into thinking less food is coming...
DIED. MARY THOMPSON, 120, indefatigable centenarian who reportedly "always kept her .22 in her bra"; in Orlando, Florida. The daughter of former slaves, Thompson never had a birth certificate, but the Social Security Administration traced her birth back to 1876. Until last week, that made her the oldest living American...