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...slightly different versions of the willowy rancher meets rugged mountain man outfit: a traditional wife-beater and stripped oxford (open, of course—wouldn’t want Dusty to overheat in the prairie sun), macho-man Texas-sized belt buckle and jeans. His seemingly unwashed, stringy, chin-length, dirty brown hair is either tucked innocently behind one ear or wisping across his rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness man who will throw an old quilt his grandmother stuffed with...
...flipped through the fashion spread, I could see myself—a person who prefers solids to floral prints and comfy pants to full ankle-length skirts—running through the fields with Dusty, our love child hanging in a hemp sling across my chest. After seven pages of Hollywood style, this-could-be-your-life type insanity, I wanted my rocky mountain high! Yes, Dusty, this land is your land, this land is my land too….this land was made for you and me (and little Leaf). Somewhere in the same part of my brain that...
...Glamour’s credit, the publication is tempering the fantasy with a bit of real-worldliness. One of the new additions to the mag is a fashion trial run by some of Glamour’s own. Just as expected, the full-length prairie skirt proved “bulky” and “flouncy” for day-to-day wear. It—like so much that is presented in the world of fashion make-believe—is probably better left to the Janes whose morning walks are unencumbered enough and whose waists...
...life expectancy (the number of years you can expect to live before being claimed by illness or accident) is not life-span (the maximum age to which the perfectly maintained, disease-free body could remain alive before it simply wore out and broke down). All the gains in length of life have been achieved by treating diseases that used to kill us in youth or, at best, in what we now consider our middle years--and are thus gains in life expectancy. Meanwhile, life-span has remained fixed at a hard ceiling of about 125 years...
...cells age. More significantly, they discovered a cufflike structure--dubbed a telomere--at the end of chromosomes that shortens each time a cell divides. When the telomere all but disappears, the cell stops dividing, and the cell line dies out. A naturally occurring enzyme, called telomerase, can maintain telomere length in some cells...