Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This season, fewer records have fallen. "I was very slow getting going," says Greene. "My first meets weren't as good as I would have hoped. [But] my most recent dual meets have been much better. I feel like I am improving every week so that keeps me going...
...Metabolism begins to slow at around age 25. For each decade thereafter, the number of calories required to maintain one's weight drops by at least 2%. Muscle mass gradually shrinks. As a result, people tend to get fatter. Kidneys may lose up to 50% of their efficiency between ages 30 and 80. Some of the liver's functions may decline. Thus alcohol remains in the body longer. So do drugs, a fact doctors are beginning to consider in deciding on dosages for older patients...
...weight, but as Neurologist David Drachman of the University of Massachusetts points out, "there is redundancy in the brain. It's like the lights in Times Square. Suppose you turn off 20% of the bulbs: you'll still get the message." Speed of recall and mental performance slow, but essential skills remain intact. Researchers speculate that memory loss among the elderly may be something of a self- fulfilling prophecy. Old people are supposed to have memory problems, so they may be more aware of, and bothered by, occasional lapses than are younger people...
...poor habits, warn gerontologists, who stress the importance of cultivating new interests and staying mentally engaged. That view is shared by no less an authority than Comedian George Burns. "People practice to get old," he avers. "The minute they get to be 65 or 70, they sit down slow, they get into a car with trouble. They start taking small steps." Burns stays young by taking fearless strides. He plans to play the London Palladium on his 100th birthday -- eight years from...
...Panama's consul general in New York. Two weeks ago he testified before the Miami grand jury. Last week he poured out such a flood of allegations -- many of which were unsupported by documentary evidence -- that Subcommittee Chairman John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, had to ask him to slow down...