Word: cassel
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Among the highlights of the workshop was a discussion with Seymour Cassel. In his energetic, irreverent manner, Cassel, who most recently appeared in "Indecent Proposal" (1993), spoke about acting, film, his experiences working with director John Cassavetes and his starring role in Rockwell's new film...
From the start, it seemed like a classic case of "grandpa dumping." Some stressed-out family member, experts conjectured, had suddenly broken under the pressure of caring for a confused and ailing spouse or parent. "It's shocking and terrible," says University of Chicago geriatrician Dr. Christine Cassel, "but it doesn't surprise me at all. The families of Alzheimer's patients sometimes just give up in despair." Such families have been known to drop their elderly charges off at hospital emergency rooms and then disappear. "It happens here probably once a month," says University of Chicago emergency- room physician...
...comes as something of a jolt to be told by the experts that human beings have taken life about as far as it can go. That is the sobering conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease...