Word: spartanism
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...alternative to changing the way cells process nutrients is giving them less to process in the first place. Studies have shown that rats whose caloric intake is 30% lower than that of a control group tend to live 30% to 40% longer. In humans, that would translate to a spartan diet of just 1,400 calories a day in exchange for 30 extra years of life...
Sitting in the Spartan vehicle, pressed against the blue cloth seats and listening to a strange combination of static and soft rock seems incongruous with the wild West image most have of crime-fighting...
...Spartan as Mir is, its science facilities are first rate, and Lucid, a biochemist, spent much of her time aloft studying how the space environment affects living tissue and how protein crystals grow in zero gravity. Like others who have tried to live and work in space, however, she found that the living part doesn't always go as well as the working part...
...would run the monarchy, he would run the family. Elizabeth, pursuing endless duty, was often absent for months at a time, and her children were brought up by nannies with strong wills and limited imaginations. Philip, worried about the sensitive Charles, sent him off for toughening to his own spartan alma mater, Gordonstoun. Bradford's pages on Charles' beatings and bullyings are hard to read. Both neglected and spoiled, none of the children could quite absorb their mother's sense of purpose into their own lives...
...visits are necessary. I want to meet him and see what he's like and, quite frankly, without a personal approach he may go to Yale or Princeton," Murphy says, "Ivy recruiting is not that different from other schools or from Cincinnati--we just do it very Spartan and frugally...