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...years ago, Harvard researcher Dr. David Sinclair joined the growing ranks of scientists who believe that severely restricting calorie intake can slow down the aging process. Evidence for that surprising phenomenon emerged in the 1930s, when scientists learned that underfed rodents lived up to 40% longer than their well-fed counterparts. The results have since been duplicated in fruit flies, worms, monkeys and other lab animals. And preliminary research on humans suggests that some markers of aging--levels of blood glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol--improve on calorie-restriction (CR) diets...
...Sinclair put himself on the same sort of severe diet that members of the tiny but highly motivated Calorie Restriction Society follow. He lasted a week. "It was too tough," he says. "My hat's off to the calorie restricters. Now I'm hoping to find drugs that can give people the benefits of CR without the diet...
...sure, Moore and Miramax will find a new distributor; of that there is no question. What is particularly worrisome is that the interference of powerful media conglomerates in the dissemination of politically sensitive material has lately become routine. Two weeks ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group instructed its seven ABC affiliates not to air a Nightline segment displaying the names of over 500 U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq because, according to Sinclair’s statement, the company deemed the program politically motivated against U.S. efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair?...
...form a worrisome pattern of corporate hindrance of political discourse—or in Nightline’s case, simply a refusal to acknowledge the sacrifice of American soldiers. The conglomerates act lawfully. But regardless, by refusing to disseminate programs and publications because of their political content, firms like Sinclair, Clear Channel and Disney perfidiously shape debate to suit their preferences—a complacent public interested in consuming products instead of politics...
...Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the U.S. in Iraq." SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, explaining why the company pulled from its eight ABC-TV stations an edition of Nightline in which anchor Ted Koppel read aloud the names of all the U.S. service members killed in action in Iraq...