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...caps and blankets for friends and family whenever a baby arrives--the newborn getting an early blessing from the ageless. And every month, she donates several blankets to a charity for unwed mothers. Driving, knitting ... and tennis. She plays two or three times a week. She has a much younger doubles partner who "covers the court. I'm a little afraid to run too much because of the circulation in my legs," she explains...
...does science explain someone like Margaret Dell? How can a woman closing in on the start of her second century be so robustly, almost defiantly, healthy, while men and women decades younger are languishing feebly in nursing homes, plagued with failing bodies and failing minds and wishing they hadn't been so unlucky as to live so long...
...Leon was to find the Fountain of Youth. They want to understand why the Japanese islands of Okinawa are home to the world's largest population of centenarians, with almost 600 of its 1.3 million inhabitants living into their second century--many of them active and looking decades younger than their actual years. Like weekend visitors on the summer ferry to Martha's Vineyard, scientists and sociologists clog the boats to Sardinia and Nova Scotia, Canada, to see why those craggy locales harbor outsize clusters of the superold. (Gerontologists are not so beguiled by the Russian Caucasus, where exaggerated longevity...
...their success is good for the sport of beach volleyball, which is gaining in popularity with each Olympic appearance. And now, with the Olympic gold and bronze in the hands of Americans, the sport may attract more younger players that could help Americans remain on the podium in Beijing and beyond...
...says. What's different in the pool, she insists, is a new style of coaching adopting techniques from sports beyond swimming; Stephan Widmer (Lenton) and Shannon Rollason (Henry and Mills) exemplify this cross-training approach. Gould also mentions the feminine touch of Ian Thorpe's coach, Tracey Menzies: "The younger coaches are trying new things away from the (conventional) culture." After their performances in the Athens hothouse, the women of Australian swimming - and their sisters in other events - are moving to the center of the sporting stage, decked out in laurels and gold...