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...following year, Frisch determined further from the same data pool that the athletic women, who were between 20 and 80 years of age, had a lower lifetime occurrence of benign tumors and diabetes...
That settled, to everyone's relief, athletes and onlookers conserved stamina for another 24 hours and tried again. Next morning the weather was benign. Only the racecourse was horrific: at the top an icy centrifuge of steep, high- speed turns, and past the midpoint, where racers still on their skis carried speeds of 80 m.p.h., a snaky, relatively flat descent over jarring, artificially created bumps and depressions. Luxembourg's two-time World Cup champion Marc Girardelli said that Mount Allan's downhill was the "most difficult in the world," worse than Kitzbuhel's thunderous Hahnenkamm...
Aging, however, is hardly a benign process. Acknowledges Dr. Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago: "By and large, the changes are decremental. Every organ is losing reserve capacity." That means a decline in the ability to recover from physical stresses. A 60-year-old and a 20-year-old who race around the block may start out with the same pulse rate, notes Vincent Cristofalo, director of the University of Pennsylvania's center for the study of aging. "Even when they stop," he notes, "their pulses may be only a little different. The big difference will...
HAVING seen the state at its most evil, he has looked into its essence, such that no state, no matter how benign can be thought of as a defense against the autonomy of the soul. Brodsky implores us to care about literature because it offers a refuge from the tyranny of the state by offering us ourselves...
Among the issues that will be addressed by either reservations or more benign understandings...