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Another speaker, George E. Vaillant '55, Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, spoke about how self-care can prolong life. Vaillant is the director of the "Grant" Study of Adult Development, which has kept tabs on a group of male Harvard graduates of the same...
...Vaillant used slides to show various risk factors included in the Grant Study. From 1940-1942, 204 graduates were studied. By 1968-1970, 188 of those graduates were still living. In 1985, 171 were still living. When the graduates were 40-years-old, virtually all of the men had remained in the study; when the men were 65-years-old, only 74 of them were chronically ill or dead, and 22 of the men were in "excellent" health...
Longevity can be attributed to maintaining a healthy lifestyle in general, Vaillant said...
...most brutal attack was saved for L'Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a school on Ruelle Vaillant in downtown Port-au-Prince. Two hours after the 6 a.m. opening of the country's 6,000 polling stations, a mob of 50 goons descended on a line of about 100 waiting voters. Using machetes and machine guns, they cut down several Haitians on the spot, then hunted down and butchered many who had tried to flee. One woman was decapitated under an almond tree in the schoolyard. Another was dismembered in an adjacent alleyway. At least 17 people, possibly more, died...
...most impressive aspects of Vaillant's work is his own deep respect, strengthened instead of diminished after close analysis of 600 lives, for the capacity of human beings to heal even their most inexplicable and terrifying afflictions themselves. He also argues persuasively that it is not only essential, but possible, for alcoholics to regain control of their lives. -By Jane O'Reilly. Reported by Mary Carpenter/New York and Ruth Mehrtens Galvin/Boston