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...Methuselahs), then what can our genes do for us? Maybe there really is a clock of clocks, and maybe, just maybe, 21st century biologists will figure out how to twiddle and reset the hands. They might concoct Methuselah pills or inject Methuselah genes into fertilized eggs and fool our mortal bodies into believing that we are forever young. "Perhaps," Benzer muses, "aging can be better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Live To Be 125? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...dance moves, with the familiar Bee Gees music (including two new songs written by the Gibb brothers) integrated into the story. One of the pleasant surprises is how well these numbers sound in the theater: How Deep Is Your Love becomes a richly layered love duet; What Kind of Fool is a passionate expression of loss; and Night Fever is, well, a blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stayin' Alive | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...What to look for: Certainly, the intensity of the questions the play asks. As Gidron says, the play is all about "responsibilit,", and the way that we "often fool ourselves about our role as the Everyman." And despite the play being set in '30s Nazi Germany, the play has "as many implications for today as back then." Look out too for the riotous German tunes, which lend a tone of absurdity to the dream-world of John Halder...

Author: By Ben A. Cowan, Angela Marek, Diana R. Movius, and Cara New, S | Title: Fall Theater Preview: October | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...having any violent tendencies. He's perfect. Eerily perfect. All right, you guessed it--he's a serial killer; a bona fide psycho (how could someone who uses their blinker on a deserted highway not be?). The disarming smile that's perpetually pasted on his face, however, could fool anyone...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Confusion, Not Conversation Follows | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...your handwriting. Which means that when they check out that book on Mating Habits of the Lower Primates, they read every insipid thing you scrawled, and they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page of To Kill a Mockingbird. Take a tip, my friend: Mend your ways. Lose the hi-liter. The rest of us are laughing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: To Underline or Not to Underline | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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