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...weight of evidence supports the idea that wise adjustments of behavior can extend life span by delaying or preventing heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other chronic ailments," Paffenbarger said in the statement. "Also, it seems [to be] never too late to adopt favorable habits whether you graduated from Harvard...
...train, falls flat, Corliss feels. "This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story," says Corliss. But the banter "often plays like desperate showing-off."BOOKS . . . A PRIVATE VIEW (Random House; 242 pages; $23): This wise and funny novel is about love between two people with very little in common: a woman filled with flaky California-isms (adept as she is in Vibrasound, Tantric Massage, Reflexology, Color Counseling) and a decent and honest -- but bland -- man. The book, says Time critic Martha Duffy, is a "welcome surprise...
Imagine Cool Hand Luke, the Hustler or even Butch Cassidy somehow making it all the way to his sunset years. Then imagine him measuring out those years as an unemployed, virtually unemployable, construction worker in one of those small, featureless upstate New York towns -- still a knothead, still a wise guy in revolt against the conventional wisdom, still very recognizably Paul Newman. That, in essence, is Nobody's Fool...
Some of the nation's antipoverty programs require overhauling. But before the cleaver is swung, it would be wise to consider some facts about poverty and its causes...
...disabling illness can destroy a working family's financial resources. It's fine to be charmed by Newt's revolution -- some of his prescriptions deserve support -- but we should think twice before we cut. "Poverty," said that ancient futurist Aristotle, "is the parent of crime and revolution" -- a wise warning about an upheaval far different from the one Gingrich has in mind...