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Roth, who has already observed the life-extending effectiveness of caloric restriction in rodents, is conducting similar experiments with primates. Even if they succeed, however, trying to apply the treatment to humans could prove dicey. In a nation of consumers for whom caloric belt tightening can mean little more than a smaller serving of French fries with their bacon cheeseburgers, the belief that people would be willing to reduce what they eat by a full third is probably unrealistic...
Pause. "What are the rest of the words?" In consternation and frustration, I belt out "blah, blah, blah, blah, o'er Eli hold sway." Panicked, I realize that I do not know the words to Harvard's favorite cheer. Who am I kidding: not only do I not know some of the words; I can't even get through the first verse...
...injuries to children and deaths of children involving airbags are apparently the result of unintended use of seats or restraints, or misplacement of kids," notes TIME's Sally Donnelly. "For example, placing children too small to be using seatbelts alone in the front seat, or kids taking the shoulder belt off and putting it behind their backs." There also was a report Thursday that auto manufacturers and the government knew of the dangers of air bags to children as far back as 1969, but kept the findings private out of fear that it would undermine efforts to win acceptance...
...retiring Democrat David Boren, Inhofe now face's Boren's eccentric cousin. Inhofe himself is known for some verbal eccentricities, like denouncing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as "gestapo bureaucracies." With a strong conservative record, however, he plays well in this Bible Belt state...
...19th District is a mix of Old West machismo and Sun Belt sophistication--home to oil, Cowboy Mornings, agribusiness and Texas Tech. Like the district's economic prosperity, Combest's political success comes from expertise in old and new technologies: he was John Tower's agricultural-affairs specialist, is a member of the Agriculture Committee and chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee...