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...vigor of the very old has a simple explanation, says Perls: "The genetically weak die off, and what is left is an enriched group of healthy, strong individuals." This weeding-out process is most evident among those for whom the selection pressures are greatest. For instance, while death rates are higher for African Americans than for whites up to age 75, blacks who make it to 75 have superior health and longevity. Similarly, although men have a shorter average life-span than women, males who do survive into extreme old age tend to be in better shape than women...
Metamorphosen dove into the "Serenade" with soloistic vigor, each violinist swelling through the lightly pitching opening phrases. Startlingly, all of their emotive swellings were perfectly choreographed and executed. As a result, the group brought far more levity and energy to the "Serenade" than any string section from a major orchestra could. For example, the recent recording by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's strings and Semyon Bychkov stands in stark contrast to Metamorphosen's performance...
Instead, academic obstacles should be met with renewed vigor, Howard said. Students should "get mad, get determined," and think, "I must improve myself," he said...
...which of these abominations is true. Perhaps all of them are, as seemed to be the case in the recent Virginia mudfest between Oliver North and Charles Robb. The author, a political consultant, produces muck of a good, gooey consistency and characters who chuck it at each other with vigor. The best and most rascally is Matt's candidate, Governor Solomon Jawinski, a fat, Polish-Jewish carpetbagger from Detroit who drives an old El Dorado convertible and knows how to talk redneck. In a TV debate he points out that his opponent is too lean and too handsome. "When everybody...
...While he has been burdened by a lack of sufficient sleep over a period of months, his spirits are very good, and he is looking forward to restored vigor and to returning to his post in a matter of weeks or months," Fineberg said...