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...requires little more than the will to work at them. Argues Body Builder Rachel McLish: "You have a simple choice of what to put on your bones: fat or muscle. Working out is a positive addiction." It may also be the means to that elusive, seductive goal: a prolonged, vital youth. "The fitness business," suggests Novelist-Critic Wilfrid Sheed, "is about sex and immortality. By toning up the system you can prolong youth, just about finesse middle age and then, when the time comes, go straight into senility...
...safety is an illusion, and so is paradise. Speaking before another Chautauqua audience this day, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, says that it is inhuman and arrogant for doctors to prolong life artificially if nothing but pain or coma lies ahead for the patient. His predominantly gray-haired audience cheers. A moment later, one of his listeners falls ill. As he is carried out by ambulance attendants, he gives a V sign to the crowd...
Some people don't belong in this decaying cityscape. One is Deckard (Harrison Ford), a burntout, Bogie-style detective; the others are "replicants," robots of advanced design who have infiltrated the city to find their creator and prolong their short, violent lives beyond the allotted four-year span. Deckard, brought back into service to kill the quartet of replicants, finds it no easy job-for they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Moreover, Deckard's emotions have been short-circuited from a lifetime of dirty police work, whereas the emotions of the replicant leader...
...first time, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), soccer's Swiss-based, iron-fisted ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore the fans. New Zealand and Honduras would increase the probability that stars like Argentina's sensational Diego Maradona, Brazil's Zico and Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge would suffer injuries...
...something about this," Gerrity recalls. "We were basically just playing catch-up ball for the last decade. We all saw next year as the first time we might be able to really do something about it....It's just like deferred maintenance: you can only prolong it for so long...