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Many scientists are skeptical of the hype surrounding fountain-of-youth hormones. "If it was all due to wear and tear, I'd buy the theory that you could live 500 years," says Dr. Richard Sprott, associate director of the NIA's biology of aging program. "But there is some basic genetic programming, and the only way to significantly increase the life-span is to alter genetics...
...economic impact of such a development. In the meantime, little can be done for those who refuse to do for themselves. Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, chief of geriatrics at Boston's Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged, pointedly warns, "Geriatric medicine starts in the 40s." And the NIA's Sprott cautions that "the difference comes in life-style changes, not in the pills you take." Health and biomedical researchers all agree that for now, the best offense against the ravages of time is a level-headed defense: watch your weight, knock off the booze, quash the cigarettes, get plenty of sleep...
...about a year, is by the late great English novelist E.M. Forster, and so rates as a major literary event. Written in 1913, Forster's sixth novel was withheld by the author of A Passage to India until after his death because, according to his literary executor W.J.H. Sprott, "He thought there would be some stir about it and he did not want to be involved." Forster's own homosexuality is dealt with movingly by his authorized biographer, P.N. Furbank, in the current issue of Encounter. "He achieved physical sex very late," writes Furbank, "and found it easier...
Author Cronin's British memories seem to have got confused by his 14 years of residence in the U.S., so that his book is like a game of baseball played by somebody who thinks it is cricket. The villain of the novel, Sir Matthew Sprott, prosecutor for the Crown, can be best described as a go-getting U.S. district attorney with a knighthood. Wortley's police chief is another odd case of hands across the sea, one of those blunt Britons of the old Prohibition gang-war days. As for Wortley's newspapermen, nothing like them...
...father, the cops and the judiciary are forever on his tail, eager to bury the nasty stuff again. But Ulster's Paul fights on with true U.S. idealism, until at last he proves that the murder was committed by a well-known Wortley philanthropist and that Sir Matthew Sprott got the conviction of father Mathry simply to feather his own nest...