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...thing, she's blessed with good genes. But she also finds fulfillment in her painting, is active in her community, eats lots of vegetables and exercises regularly. According to the latest research on aging, those are exactly the sorts of things we all should be doing to help maintain our ability to remember, reason, make decisions and learn...
Luckily, we also live in an era in which research is showing us how to nurture and maintain our mental faculties?from infancy through the golden years?and how to deter what was once seen as an inevitable decline. Some new findings confirm what we have always suspected: Grandma was right?fish really is brain food; a steaming cup of joe actually does turbocharge our mental acuity; getting less than eight hours of sleep seriously compromises our ability to concentrate and solve problems...
...Michael Johnson, who competed in three Olympic Games over a span of a dozen years, avoiding a slump was mostly a matter of staying in control. "The first thing an athlete has to realize is that you are always in control," he says. "And you need to maintain that control." Control, that is, of both the body and the mind...
...into the middle class. Instead of clustering tightly in urban ethnic enclaves, they spread out into suburbia, where they were often isolated. And it was there that their kids, now 20 to 40 years old, grew up, straddling two worlds?the traditional domain their recently arrived parents sought to maintain at home and the fast-changing Western culture of the society outside the front door. The six people at the New York City dinner are members of that second generation and?full disclosure?so are we, the authors of this article...
...might be moot for the year, anyway, as the tangled logistics could well push the start back into June, when the summer recess of Congress would deprive them of "Pharaoh" rulers to plague. Young proposed to make constructive use of delay, and questioned the enormous effort to assemble and maintain a novel protest army of polyglot poor people in Washington. He doubted King's white attorney and closest confidant Stanley Levison's analogy with the Bonus Marchers of 1932-34, whose suffering and rejection had kindled delayed support for New Deal initiatives, and King aide James Bevel renewed his attack...