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...cancel your life-insurance policy just yet. While the new work suggests a way to prolong life, scientists are a long way from making it a reality--and it may be too risky to be useful. The study proves something that researchers already suspected: each of the 1 trillion cells in the human body contains its own biological clock, which tells the cell when to stop growing and start dying. It might be possible to stop that clock. But would it be prudent? Many biologists think the cell's planned obsolescence is an all-important safeguard against the development...
...longer and increasing even a single human life-span. Doctors are already familiar with cells that live indefinitely: they're called cancer cells. Apparently one reason tumors expand aggressively is that their cells are full of telomerase. So, unless scientists carefully control cell division, activating human telomerase may not prolong life but just create cancers...
Some stars age gracefully. Others use every means in their power to prolong youth by focusing on its companions: beauty and desirability. Still others fade out of sight. But JON VOIGHT has chosen a fourth route. He has embraced his outer homeliness. Voight, 58, has come a long way since he played Rolf in Broadway's original Sound of Music, or even since his Oscar-winning turn as the archetypal '70s-sensitive guy in Coming Home. In Anaconda, Heat and U-Turn, Voight has proved he can be as scrofulous and evil as the next bad guy. But it takes...
...spreading strike, union workers at subways, phone companies and cargo docks have been directed to stay on the job for fear of raising the people's ire; hospital workers also have remained to staff emergency and operating rooms. Home Minister Kim Woo-suk warned that if the unions prolong the protests, the "government has no option but to take firm action." For now, though, the Seoul government will let public opinion determine the strikes' course. It is a war that unions seem to think they...
While science seeks to prolong Americans' lives, the rest of society is making it clear that old people are increasingly undesirable. GAEL GIBNEY New York City...