Word: chicago
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...Michael Roizen, chairman of critical care at the University of Chicago and author of RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? (HarperCollins), echoes the same theme. "We really can slow the pace of aging--and even reverse it," he writes. Roizen shows how our choices affect the quality of our old age. "Eating that hamburger will make you older tomorrow than if you ate that salad today. And you will be younger tomorrow if you exercise today." Some suggestions are bromide-simple: wear a seat belt, take an aspirin a day, floss your teeth daily. Others are more...
...female variant is Fifty on Fifty: Wisdom, Inspiration, and Reflections on Women's Lives Well Lived (Warner). Author Bonnie Miller Rubin, a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, interviews 50 well-known women, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jane Fonda and Erica Jong, about their lives and thoughts at the half-century mark. The first impulse is to ask what a 50-year-old celebrity can tell me. A lot, it turns out. As syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman tells Rubin, "You don't make it to 50 without having had your head handed to you." Survival, they say, means hanging tough...
...time business. In Colorado's San Luis Valley, a onetime physicist and computer programmer named Milt Trosper is fashioning High Valley Cyber Development, a would-be millennium-insulated community on a high plateau surrounded by mountains. "'Safe haven' is the buzzword," says Trosper. "People want to move here from Chicago, Florida, Ohio." If he can get $50 million in financing, he hopes to accommodate the nervous newcomers with a "smart" community of PC-operated, solar-heated homes...
...Chicago at N.Y. Rangers...
...balls hit by all-time home run king Hank Aaron and former single season home-run leaders Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. This is a vast and rich nation full of talented people in all fields who keep turning up as the years go by. After the tears in Chicago have dried, we will remember that no one is ever irreplaceable, not even Air Jordan...