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...theory goes. Experiments involving restricted diets on primates have produced lower bone mass, a dangerous condition for older people. Moreover, because lab animals do not have the life-span of humans, all this remains highly speculative. Dr. Anna McCormick, chief of the biology section at the National Institute on Aging, cautions that cutting calories may never be an effective method of retarding age in humans. But, she says, "there may be a way to find a hormone or a drug that would have the same effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aging: OLDER, LONGER | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...rock bands equally talented. I may also have believed that GETTING STONED engendered profound INSIGHTS, which I may have, at least once, attempted to record with a Day-Glo marker on the back of an empty doughnut box (in Molinari's world, this would be known as a "LAB REPORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING OVER GETTING STONED | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...from that section of the plane, and found no other traces of explosives. You would expect more traces to be there, so why haven't they found there more positive readings? Instead of a conclusion, these findings just lead to more speculation. Other tests for explosives at the local lab in Calverton have resulted in false positive tests for explosives. The FBI will have to gather a lot more evidence before they can say definitively that a bomb or a missile destroyed the plane." Such evidence would be crucial to any court case, meaning that divers will continue their grim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWA: Not So Fast | 8/25/1996 | See Source »

...little plant, we could detect that," says Norm Haynes, director of the Mars Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But there's nothing we can send from Earth that can even begin to duplicate what the people who studied the Martian meteorite did in the lab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEXT: ROVERS, SCOOPERS AND MAYBE EVEN ASTRONAUTS | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

Amid surging hopes that the cause of the crash would soon be revealed, both boxes--the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders--were flown immediately to the NTSB lab in Washington, where experts spent much of Thursday in preliminary analysis. The flight-data recorder, which automatically tracks a number of the plane's navigational and mechanical processes, had been partly damaged by salt water, though officials believe much of the encoded information can eventually be salvaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftermath: Flight 800 Crash: THE SEARCH FOR SABOTAGE | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

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