Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eating Cornflakes. Tests on mice show that a simple dietary change -feeding them only two days out of every three-can postpone all of the usual senile changes, from coat graying to tumors and loss of reproductive power. The key to aging rates in humans is far more complicated, but Comfort thinks a battery of tests can be devised to identify people who are aging unusually fast or slowly and to find out why. "If eating cornflakes or using toothpaste makes us age fast," he says, "we would now have no way of knowing this." What would it cost...
...Peanut had gone fairly well, he thought, though a small slip was costly. The reference to Cornell as being "under Harvard's domination" was a mistake, and the backlash from the misstatement was severe. Upset Ithaca partisans cast ballots against Restic in a 9-3 proportion, and the loss in that precinct was a surprise to all prognosticators...
...guess I just wasn't thinking that day," Gerry Joe moaned to himself, listening halfheartedly to Betty's claim that there had been infractions committed in the late hours of last week's loss to the Peanut...
...that reason, architecture is fully appreciated neither as author nor as experience. The buildings we know well, we take for granted; they seem so functional that we forget their role as artificers and artifacts, and neglect the built environment until too late. Thus New Yorkers wept more for the loss of the Brooklyn Dodgers than for Penn Station; Harvard recovered its Greek coins, but threw away Hunt Hall...
Unlike the loss of a team or ancient coins, the loss of socially focal and artistically valuable architecture is noted in passing, accepted after the fact as inevitable and necessary. America's Forgotten Architecture, written collectively by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, aims to wake our dormant awareness of the buildings we encounter daily, to make us realize how they matter and that we can and should keep them alive. Written to save the landmarks that mark the geography of American communities and their collective memories, the book is not a coffee-table volume of Historic Architecture glossies...