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...company. I have had many occasions to say, "I am so impressed, John, by what you did." He'd blush and change the subject. You are born with three things: intelligence, endurance and the opportunity to build integrity. You decide how much intelligence and endurance you are going to use. You build integrity every single day with the choices you make. I would scratch my head if someone asked me to give them a choice John made that was bad, that produced inferior integrity. And I find myself wondering what life will be like without John Chafee...
...PHYSICAL A study in JAMA reports that women ages 25 to 45 who use home-exercise equipment lose more weight than those who go for brisk walks or otherwise exercise outside the home. Members of the latter group were found to be more likely to skip their regimen in bad weather or if they got delayed until after dark. Those with treadmills and such at home could more easily fit exercise into fast-changing family schedules, even as they watched over children...
Treatments for more advanced cancers, however, are farther over the horizon than anybody can see. What is clear is that oncologists must take a page from aids treatment and use a cocktail of drugs with very different modes of action to outsmart tumors that have already begun to spread or metastasize...
Neither of these explanations need trouble us. We are not going to use cloning to make the whole of the next generation from one individual (though in the 1930s several eminent geneticists thought that when IVF became available, lots of people would rush out to choose prominent men such as Lenin as a father--which just goes to show how wrong geneticists can be about the future). Also, genetic mutations accumulate much too slowly to worry...
...century, that will change. Much as we have awakened to the full economic and social costs of cigarettes, we will find we can no longer subsidize or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely inefficient use of freshwater and land, heavy pollution from livestock feces, rising rates of heart disease and other degenerative illnesses, and spreading destruction of the forests on which much of our planet's life depends...