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Many older people have an entirely different reaction. Long-term exposure to the enervating heat appears to lessen their production of adrenaline, a hormone that maintains blood pressure and helps regulate cardiac function. The older folk become fatigued, apathetic and depressed. They may also become faint, thus contributing to the increased number of automobile accidents...
Spur to Inflation. Even Medicare, passed in 1965 to lessen the economic impact of illness on the aged, has helped to push up the costs overall. The program provides broad medical coverage to an estimated 20 million Americans, most of whom would be otherwise unable to obtain insurance. But it has also worsened inflation by allowing over-generous payments for the care provided, increasing the demand for services without enlarging the supply...
...being caught again in the Thames." He recalls a personal hero, Herbert Johnson, supervisor of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. As a minor park employee 18 years ago, Johnson was appalled at New York City's use of Jamaica Bay as a garbage dump and worked to lessen the visual pollution by planting native shrubs, bushes and trees. Now one of the major bird-watching locations in Eastern North America, the refuge has been proposed as the site of a federal recreation area. Even the pollution of the Hudson River is reversible, he says; it will purify itself naturally...
...cases illustrate both the limitations of money in politics, and its ability to lessen the odds between newcomers and incumbents or glamorous public figures. Both Metzenbaum and Ottinger were reasonably able, attractive candidates, and voters were entitled to know about their credentials. Under a restrictive spending law, the voters could not have known. Ottinger's ultimate defeat, it might be noted, raises the point that in certain situations, spending too much may be as risky as spending too little. Many political experts believe that a contributory factor in his loss was the resentment of voters who felt that Ottinger...
...potential panacea is isoprinosine, a derivative of the chemical inosine found in muscle tissue. In 1958, Gordon began experimenting with inosine to lessen "absentmindedness" in aged rats and mice. The substance, which stimulates protein production by brain cells, worked. Gordon observed that the drug also prevented viral action by blocking the genetic information that viruses must carry into cells in order to reproduce themselves (TIME, April 19). Speculating that the drug's antiviral action might be a useful medical tool, Gordon began to search for a derivative that did not have inosine's unpleasant side effect, a prolonged...