Word: methuselah
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...cradle to the grave and decides how fast we age. Recently he discovered a mutant fruit fly that lives more than 100 days, about one-third longer than the rest of the madding crowd in a fly bottle. What makes the difference is a single gene, which Benzer calls Methuselah...
...least they looked dignified on television. In a flurry of ceremony Thursday, the 13 House managers were sworn in, Judiciary Committee Chair Henry Hyde read the two articles of impeachment, and Chief Justice Rehnquist was sworn in as judge by the Senate's own Methuselah, Strom Thurmond. Then the Senate jurors bent and signed the oath book, each getting to keep his own ceremonial pen. With a tap of Rehnquist's gavel, the historic moment was complete, and Senators could get back to their squabble...
...love scientists; they are truly some of our brightest stars. Without them, life would be hellish; and because of them, life for the Methuselah wannabes will be hell. I am thrilled to see that scientists have found another way to let the wealthy inherit what's left of the earth. I say to the rich and famous, good luck, enjoy the long and youthful life your money will buy, strive to be like your furniture--antique--and change spare body parts as often as your cars do. Hold on to what's left of the earth--along with the nine...
...teenager saw a cassette for The Rookie and said, "Look! The new Charlie Sheen movie!" That Sheen was billed below Clint Eastwood, who also directed the film, mattered not to this youth. Clint, long past his popular prime, was as old and irrelevant as Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Methuselah. To many moviegoers, Eastwood, 62, has become the character he played in Sergio Leone's westerns 25 (and a million) years ago: the "Man with No Name...
SCUM by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 218 pages; $19.95). The title sounds right for a new Elmore Leonard detective novel, but Singer has extracted it from a passage in his own short story The Death of Methuselah: "Flesh and corruption were the same from the very beginning, and always will remain the scum of creation, the very opposite of God's wisdom, mercy and splendor...