Word: johnson
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Feel 30 for the Next 50 Years by David W. Johnson (Avon) stresses that it's not enough merely to extend your life span; it's the youth span that's critical. "Youth span refers only to the number of years we live in good health, with high energy, strength and mobility, and with vigorous mental, sensory and sexual powers," Johnson says. He points to the readily observable fact that at a college reunion, some people have aged more than others: "You do not need to be a molecular biologist to conclude that something (or some things) other than simply...
...street performers named David and Roselyn, playing songs for spare change in the French Quarter of New Orleans. This is Sylvester ("Sunshine") Lee teaching a class in African drumming in East St. Louis, Ill. This is polka accordionist Karl Hartwich and Cajun bandleader D.L. Menard and bluesmen Big Jack Johnson and Little Milton...
Sources: FDA; Families, Systems & Health; New England Journal of Medicine; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
...role of a lifetime, and he's prepared. In 1992 he published Grand Inquests, a 278-page history of the 19th century impeachment trials of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. The book is out of print, but frenzied demand from reporters and congressional staff members desperate for clues about how Rehnquist will run Clinton's trial drove it to No. 23 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and persuaded the publisher, William Morrow and Co., to reissue it next week in paperback. The book is painfully judicious in refusing to offer opinions but seems to applaud the acquittals...
...about what goes onto the family dinner table. Herbert Krach of the Swiss Small Farmers Union notes, "For years scientists assured us that feeding animal-based feeds to cattle was harmless." But the cautions also owe something to romantic--and perhaps outdated--notions about agriculture. Says population geneticist Brian Johnson of Britain's conservation watchdog English Nature: "Conventional intensive agriculture has done more damage to wildlife than anything else." Anyone who thinks that pesticide spraying is safer than biotech crops, he says, "must be nuts...