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...favor the following plan. Starting in 1982, retirees' benefits would grow each year by the price rise in excess of 2%, instead of by the entire price rise as they do under current law. Thus, if inflation raises the price level by 8%, retirees' benefits would increase by 6%. Under no circumstances would the benefits for retirees be cut. For example, a retired couple that now receives $700 a month from Social Security would see its benefits rise to $756 next year, if the inflation rate is 8%. With a 2% floor, benefits would instead rise...
These were only the foothills of genius. The Good Humor Corp., with an excess of hubris, made a chili con carne ice-cream bar, which failed. L.L. Bassett, grandson of the founder of the great Philadelphia ice creamery (his daughter Ann took over the company five years ago), made yellow tomato ice cream in the 1930s. No one liked it. Dill-pickle ice cream, intended for pregnant women, was concocted by a shop in Michigan. It succeeded. More than one specialty shop whipped up jelly-bean ice cream in honor of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, but Washington Lawyer Weiss...
...would be bigger, more powerful and more accurate than a Titan or Minuteman, and the Soviets, in theory, would never know which of the shelters to target with their missiles if they decided to attack. The scheme has been criticized both because of its cost?in excess of $75 billion?and because it would tear up enormous chunks of America's West. (The drag strip would occupy an area the size of New Jersey...
...flow may be caused by prostaglandins. These potent chemicals, produced by the body, help regulate functions such as blood pressure, blood clotting and reproduction. Says Demers: "Some prostaglandins made by the uterus precipitate the contractions that are necessary for menses and labor. But when they're produced in excess, the uterine muscle cramps." Carried through the bloodstream to other parts of the body, the prostaglandins trigger additional discomfort...
What makes The Methuselah Factor refreshing is that Georgakas has merged those two trends of the 1970's, concern for the future of humankind and aggressive me-ism, the Ishmael and Queequeg of this whale of a book. At times the book reeks of excess attention to individual concerns. Many of Georgakas' 'prolongevous' lessons would require people to pay such attention to lengthening their own lives that they could have little time or energy for passionate activism. He also largely dispels notions of national or racial bases for longevity, convincingly arguing that long-living communities can boast of unusual proportions...