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...Michael Roizen, chairman of critical care at the University of Chicago and author of RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? (HarperCollins), echoes the same theme. "We really can slow the pace of aging--and even reverse it," he writes. Roizen shows how our choices affect the quality of our old age. "Eating that hamburger will make you older tomorrow than if you ate that salad today. And you will be younger tomorrow if you exercise today." Some suggestions are bromide-simple: wear a seat belt, take an aspirin a day, floss your teeth daily. Others are more...
...country. After Wilson was felled by a massive stroke in 1919, Edith kept him in office as a form of therapy--she thought a resignation would quicken his death--concealing the truth from the world. Half-paralyzed and nearly blind, Wilson became more rigid in a way that would affect history, refusing to compromise in order to gain Senate approval for American membership in his own creation, the League of Nations. Edith Wilson pulled off a masterful charade for the benefit of Congress and the country, becoming in the process what some called the "28th and a half" President...
During his long career, he made important contributions to the studies of white blood cells and the molecular factors that affect sleep...
...ocean," says Kluger, "imagine what it's like in space." The mission must now wait for Mars to enter into a slower orbit around the sun in December 2003, at which point Nozuma will need less fuel to get into Martian orbit. Luckily the delay will not affect the mission's objective of broadcasting images and data back to Earth. And by then the Burger King should be open...
...everyone is convinced. Leonard Guarente, a specialist on aging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, observes that "telomeres seem to be important in getting cells to divide in vitro, but the onus is to show that short telomeres affect aging in vivo. I don't think we know that yet." --By Clare Thompson...