Word: elizabeth
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Other simple decisions involve pushing yourself away from the dining table. If you follow the advice given in certain fountain-of-youth books, the authors promise, you will shed pounds as well as years. Elizabeth Somer, a dietitian who has written Age-Proof Your Body: Your Complete Guide to Lifelong Vitality (Morrow), stresses that the most important longevity goal is active-life expectancy, "the maximum number of healthy, disease-free years a person can expect to have." To that end, she gives readers a number of diet and exercise pointers. Readers are advised to replace coffee with green tea once...
...just as the men who have recently announced their presidential ambitions did so as quietly as possible--on the Internet (Bill Bradley) or late on New Year's Eve (Al Gore)--the official story of Elizabeth Dole's decision to join the fray is one of immaculate conception. One morning before Christmas, the tale goes, she woke up and began thinking seriously about running for President. After eight years as president of the American Red Cross, she had tied the place up into a neat little bundle, securing the blood supply and the fund-raising stream, coping with one disaster...
...good story, but Elizabeth Hanford Dole, 62, has never done business that way. She and her advisers have been thinking about her running for President since her husband was trounced by Bill Clinton two years ago. By Christmas 1996, Bob Dole was joking about the idea publicly, but a year ago, he says, she told him, "You have to stop kidding about this." She discussed the matter with him seriously, anxious to be sure he had put the defeat behind him emotionally. By last January aides were clucking over polls showing that she might pull independent women voters back...
...been rattled by a controversy set off by two divergent biographies. One is by her sister and brother, Hilary and Piers du Pre: Hilary and Jackie (Ballantine; 350 pages; $12.95), which was originally published in Britain under the title A Genius in the Family. The other is by cellist Elizabeth Wilson, written with the encouragement of Du Pre's widower, Barenboim: Jacqueline du Pre (Arcade; 466 pages; $27.95). The release of a new film, also titled Hilary and Jackie and based on the book by Jacqueline's siblings, promises to take Du Pre's story, and the battle over...
...heart-patient trial, St. Elizabeth's Isner found a novel way around the delivery problem. Eschewing virus carriers, he fashioned a construct called "naked DNA." It consists of part of a human gene called VEG-F, which stimulates the growth of blood vessels, and includes its signal segments. These segments, Isner explains, "order the cell, once it has manufactured the gene product, to export it from the cell...