Word: agee
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...biweekly 90-min. weight-lifting program, which involved the slow, progressive addition of weight machines and free weights, up to as much weight as patients could comfortably lift; the other half of the patients did not lift weights at all. (See how to prevent illness at any age...
...agent works a little differently than the bisphosphonates, which are designed to paralyze bone-destroying cells - cells that increase in number as people age. While the body continually destroys and replaces bone tissue throughout life, the destruction eventually begins to overtake the construction, and the result in older age is a patchier, weaker type of bone that is more prone to breaking. While bisphosphonates block the activity of bone-destroying cells, denosumab prevents new ones from forming altogether. The end result is a tipping of the bone balance away from bone destruction and toward bone formation. Early studies in mice...
...burkas feels even more out of place. I agree that measures should be taken to ensure that citizens are not forced into wearing this traditional attire against their will, but a universal law prohibiting them is not the solution. However, a ban on nudity over the age of 50 is something that may have wider appeal. Charles A. LaCalle ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a government concentrator in Kirkland House...
...widely known fact: Switzerland hasn’t seen combat in roughly two centuries. A less widely known fact (at least in the United States): All able-bodied Swiss men are obligated to enroll in the military at the age of 18 and, after an initial training period of nine months, perform additional local training every year until the age of 30. Women may volunteer...
...been made, including the introduction of alternative service for conscientious objectors and the opening of the forces to women. Overall, the level of conscripts available for call at any one time dropped from 10 percent of the population to 5 percent, due to a lowering of the retirement age...