Word: holde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will. It's hard to get hold of him. He's either in the bank or on the way to the bank. He's been married five or six times. I think those guys do have more fun. I've been married for 51 years, and I wear her clothes now, and she wears mine...
...societal misfits. With a would-be candidate like Donald Trump [PUBLIC EYE, Oct. 18] and an elected official like Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, it is a party of airheads and egomaniacs. What a travesty of democracy that these shallow characters aspire to be candidates for public office, or already hold it! With people like them, "In God We Trust" is an even more urgent watchword for the welfare of our country. MIDGE RITTER Gettysburg...
...about the future." Yet as we come to the end of the 20th century--a century that saw us split the atom, crack the genetic code and allow Aunt Martha to auction off her turquoise Fiesta ware online--it is only natural to ask what the 21st century will hold for us. We trust that the future will outmarvel the past, but all we can say for sure is that our lives will change more swiftly than ever. In the following pages we ask what we hope are provocative questions about our health and the health of our planet...
...biologists announced the discovery of mutations that accumulate in aging mitochondria, which are our cells' batteries; maybe someday they will learn how to keep our batteries from winding down. Scientists may also learn to repair our telo meres, the tiny ties at the ends of each chromosome that help hold our genetic bundles together but fray with age. Researchers may even learn to grow whole new hearts and livers from stem cells, a prospect I find slightly dispiriting. Will we walk off the stage at last elaborately disguised, a living prosthesis--false teeth, false eyes, false taste buds, false everything...
...microscopic bits that remain must be flushed down by drink or saliva (morning breath occurs because salivation shuts down at night). But if you're waiting for a true cure, it won't happen until we eat all our food in pill form. In other words, don't hold your breath...