Word: centenarian
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...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...
...Gibson's new novel, Idoru (Putnam), due in September, is a ghost story of sorts. And a second September book, Holy Fire (Bantam), by Bruce Sterling, another godfather of cyberpunk, is about intergenerational war. It's set 100 years in the future, in an age ruled by a wealthy centenarian gerontocracy whose disenfranchised children are readying a revolution based on the terrifying new cognitive landscapes offered by man-computer interfaces...
...once delivered vegetables in Mickey's old neighborhood. Getting the spirit of the aged on paper has become something of a sub-specialty for Roth--notably in Patrimony, his tender and unsparing account of his father's life and death. The encounter between Sabbath and the centenarian is reminiscent of the earlier memoir...