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CHRONOMEDICINE Timing is everything, say Michael Smolensky and Lynne Lamberg, authors of The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health (Henry Holt). This provocative book explores chronobiology, the science of body time. It is a brand-new discipline that asserts that you must adjust the care of your body to coincide with your natural clock. In that way, say the authors, you can determine the best time to take your medicine, exercise, have sex if you want to conceive, prevent jet lag and the like...
...your biology constantly reminds you of the body's natural cycles," the authors note. "If you are male, you may be surprised to learn how much a creature of rhythms you are, too, with every function of your life--sleeping, waking, working, and working out--governed by your body clock." Even skeptical readers may be won over by this persuasive book...
...discuss an issue, then closet himself for days before abruptly announcing a decision. He never came to America; from Nixon to Clinton, they either traveled the road to Damascus or met him in neutral Geneva. They worried about elections and deadlines; a dictator, he never worried about the clock ticking. He was legendary for his marathon negotiating sessions and infuriating intransigence. But it was his actions that so befuddled American leaders. Syria helped lead the 1973 Yom Kippur War against Israel; in 1976, it marched into Lebanon and never left. Assad's Syria has been a stalwart of the State...
...larger than life but not bigger than our imagination. Most ordinary humans can't dunk from the foul line or do what M.J. did against the Utah Jazz in Game 6 of the 1998 finals, faking his defender, stopping at the top of the key, 5.2 seconds on the clock, firing off a shot--swish!--holding the pose, wrist cocked, end of game, end of career. No one has his exact gifts, but we can all imagine being like him. The famous silhouette of M.J. soaring for a one-handed slam is somehow the right size and shape...
Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, is co-founder of Global Business Network and author of The Clock of the Long...