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...free radical" theory of aging, if proved correct, would probably lead to a simpler method of rejuvenation. Free radicals are fragments of molecules with a high electrical charge-which by their oxidizing properties can cause changes in the body such as hardening of the arteries. An antioxidant, which can be produced cheaply and taken in pills, is supposed to deactivate the free radicals, thereby retarding the aging process. One such antioxidant, BHT, has already dramatically increased the life-span of mice...
...decide to test Einstein's theory that the past and the future coexist with the present. They persuade a spongelike commercial artist to live in the doughty old Dakota apartment building overlooking Central Park and, surrounded by artifacts of the time, hypnotize himself back eighty years. Nothing is simpler. The past is apparently right behind the eyeball. In no time the fellow is shuttling between centuries, meddling with history and falling in love with a girl who, he reminds himself, died some decades...
...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July. Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with over tones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear...
Hardly anything could be simpler: you hop on, grab the handlebars, press down on a pedal and roll off. Indeed, it is so easy for most people to ride a bicycle that science has hardly bothered to answer a very obvious question: What gives the bicycle its extraordinary stability? Properly curious, a British research chemist named David E.H. Jones decided to do a little backyard experimenting. His plan: to identify the bicycle's essential stabilizing features by building one that completely lacked them. In short, he would construct a totally unridable bicycle...
...biography and theatrical history. In 1950 he left New York for Tucson, where he fashioned a new career out of his love of nature; his writings celebrated the land and its creatures (The Desert Year, The Forgotten Peninsula, The Great Chain of Life), and expressed a yearning for a simpler, more contemplative life. "If you drive a car at 70 m.p.h.," he once wrote, "you can't do anything but keep the monster under control...