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Having Ron Guidry on the mound was like setting up a tank ready to fire missiles at home plate--all strikes. "Louisiana Lightnin'" was tall and lean and liked to plow fields in his home state during the off-season...
...what a thumbprint it can be. Each term the court must choose the 150 or so cases it will consider out of more than 4,000 petitions. The Justices -- six of whom pool their clerks for this purpose -- lean on the memos of their young assistants to help them pick the cases to hear. Once the docket is ^ selected, the clerks turn out even more detailed documents, called bench memos, exploring and analyzing all possible sides of the disputes, to prepare their Justices for the oral arguments...
...apparently reverses some signs of aging by changing the body's composition. Some 80% of a young adult's body consists of so-called lean body mass -- muscles, organs and bone -- and the remaining 20% is made up of fatty, or adipose, tissue. But after age 30 the muscles begin to atrophy, the skin thins out and lean body mass is replaced by adipose tissue at an average rate of 5% a decade. By age 70 the balance between fat and lean may be fifty-fifty...
After six months, the men taking HGH felt healthier and more energetic, almost like the old characters who were rejuvenated in the movie Cocoon. The group's growth hormone levels rose to those of men under 40. Fatty tissue decreased nearly 15%, lean body mass increased 9%, skin grew 7% thicker and some vertebrae became slightly denser. In several respects, the researchers say, HGH therapy reversed the consequences of a decade or two of aging. Men in the control group showed no significant changes in their physiques...
...often see such would-be Ph.Ds crouched over books with titles like Proust and the Politics of Body, their facial muscules taut with what seems to be intense intellectual eagerness. Don't let that lean and hungry look fool you, though--it's due as much to physical as to metaphysical causes. In other words, most grad students don't get enough...