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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...
Slowed recovery has a profound impact when it comes to illness. With advancing years, bones take longer to knit, wounds to heal and infections to clear up. Ultimately, says Cassel, the difference is that a "healthy young person can lose a lung, a kidney and do fine. And so too an old person can be doing fine, but then he has a stroke, a heart attack, whatever. Because of the stress, it's much more likely that all the major organs will go one after the other...
...historian of popular art, revisits the terrain in A Tough Act to Follow. His acerbic novel blends reverie with naked rage at conniving, screen-deep program executives who have displaced the medium's pioneers. Although some secondary characters and events are real, Wilk focuses on an imaginary comedian, Jody Cassel, natural star and born victim. At 21 she was a headliner; before her 30th birthday she had been forced into obscurity, leaving only the ghostly echo of her catchphrase laugh, "Wowoweeweewoh!" Her history is recalled through the reminiscences of onetime colleagues. Wilk is a cunning observer of show-business mores...
...didn't play up to our potential," Harvard outside hitter Jodi Cassel said of the title showdown. "Everyone got tired...
...most notable performances came from Cassel and senior Co-Captain Catherine Wong, who had the gaveling task of playing all four contests...