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What causes the slowdown in replace ment? Gerontologists cannot be sure, but their highest-powered laboratory tech niques are now concentrated on enzymes, those little-understood "organic catalysts" that regulate all the functions of metabo lism-both breakdown (catabolism) and buildup (anabolism). With age, a digestive change definitely involving an enzyme occurs in the salivary glands : they secrete less ptyalin, an enzyme that converts starch into sugars. Researchers believe that there may be many such changes...
...commitment to play Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, the part of a woman squashed by the strictures of society and an overbearing husband. The anxiety had reached the point of making her really sick, soon led to a critical emotional breakdown...
...people undergoing analytic treatment will multiply tremendously. As Practitioner Westman put it: "In the future we shall be analyzing the supposedly healthy people who are walking around today, as well as the obviously disturbed ones. We hope to reach the point where we shall use psychology before a breakdown has occurred." But he did not see the analyst as a god. Said he: "Analysts are human, wear pants and go to the toilet like everybody else. Naturally, they will have to be analyzed more and more to understand their own problems...
State legislatures and city council chambers across the U.S. regularly ring with politicians' warnings against "increasing concentration of power in Washington." The truth is that the main power of government-to spend money-is being claimed by legislatures and city councils at breakdown rate. Since World War II the states have increased their spending 15 times faster than the Federal Government; .city governments have increased a hefty 18 times faster. In fiscal 1957 alone, reports U.S. Census Bureau after a year of figure collecting, cities upped total expenditures 13% to an awesome $12.8 billion. .By comparison, federal spending...
...star is born. Before long, she has everything-$4,000 a week, a villa with retractable ceilings over the indoor pool, a nervous breakdown. She tries religion for a while, decides she likes whisky better. After that, she just stumbles along from drink to drink, sedative to sedative, picture to picture. "Life really is a fraud, isn't it?" she sighs one day through the barbiturate haze to the "companion" who is now in constant attendance. "I'm 31 years old, and I look back on it, and all I can think of to say is-so what...