Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more or less prescribed number of years and they die. If you watch your weight, eat right and get plenty of exercise, you can perhaps negotiate the terms a bit, squeezing out a bit more time here and there. But tripling life-spans? Quadrupling life-spans? Eliminating the very idea of life-spans? Not an option...
...first idea researchers have explored is broadly thought of as the cellular-damage model of aging. For any complex system--whether it's made of inorganic metal or protoplasmic goo--the mere act of doing the work it was designed to do carries a price. No sooner does the hardware begin operating than its parts begin wearing out and its journey to the junkyard begins. Cells are not spared this fate, and one of the functions that takes the most out of them is the job of processing food...
...idea that the grand tragedy of aging and dying might be nothing more than a body-wide process of caramelization was humbling, but more research provided still more proof. Studies of the collagen sac between the brain and skull in diabetics and the elderly turned up brown pigment characteristic of advanced glycosylation. "The glycosylation process is like the free-radical process," says Dr. Robert Butler, head of the International Longevity Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. "It's a natural phenomenon that keeps us alive but also helps lead to aging...
...bargained for the kind of trouble the production got last August, when Titanic was filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Late one evening dozens of cast and crew members became ill after eating seafood chowder that had been laced with PCP. Cameron rejects the idea that someone was avenging the director's high-handed behavior. "It would be easy to say the crew was disgruntled, but it was the last night of shooting [there]... It would be a dumb time to disrupt things," he reasons. Police have yet to crack the case...
...they are not in religious orders; they're professors at secular Columbia. But they are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems in life derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise--how to put this gently?--a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married his resistance to her will break...