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...hero! What an idea! Not an older person who was formerly great, like a De Gaulle or a DiMaggio or a Golda Meir, but an active hero in old age. Fiction gives us such characters from time to time, but reality is too real. The flesh-and-blood old hero may need a special logic to return to the field of conquest. Try this on for size: So much of space exists in the past (dead stars shine). Why shouldn't someone be able to retrieve the past in the future and be young again by being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: A Realm Where Age Doesn't Count | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...more complicated, nutrients tend to interact with one another. For example, vitamin C is supposed to act as an antioxidant, preventing damage to the cells. But that same vitamin, in the presence of iron, can act as a pro-oxidant, causing, rather than preventing, cellular damage, according to Dr. Meir Stampfer, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VITAMIN OVERLOAD? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...years ago, there were only two female senators, so female attendance in the Senate has vastly increased, perhaps indicating a trend, but because of their voting power, women should compose far more than 9 percent of the Senate. More importantly, why, when the world has seen Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir, Corazon Aquino and Kim Campbell, has America never even had a serious female candidate for president? Is the answer that the American mindset hearkens back to the ancient conception of a woman as the passive matter and not the active form? Or is 77 years not enough time since gaining...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Race, Gender and the Presidency | 10/15/1996 | See Source »

...Meir J. Stampfer, the co-investigator and lead author of a vitamin E study on women, says that some of the recent regulations Congress has imposed...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: A New Perspective | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...world Philip Roth and his fictional double would be dismissed as a Jewish Amos and Andy, a contributor to "a culture of self-abasement and vulgar excess." Young Halevi's heroes were fighting Jews: the Zionist firebrands of the 1930s; the invincible Israeli army; and U.S. extremists like Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE MAKING OF A ZEALOT | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

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