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...world's trouble is overseas. In Michigan, the youth of America have once again shown their great promise. Three teenage boys took a 15-year-old girl to an apartment complex where they served her alcohol laced with a heavy sedative known as a popular date-rape drug. She died Sunday...
Other simple decisions involve pushing yourself away from the dining table. If you follow the advice given in certain fountain-of-youth books, the authors promise, you will shed pounds as well as years. Elizabeth Somer, a dietitian who has written Age-Proof Your Body: Your Complete Guide to Lifelong Vitality (Morrow), stresses that the most important longevity goal is active-life expectancy, "the maximum number of healthy, disease-free years a person can expect to have." To that end, she gives readers a number of diet and exercise pointers. Readers are advised to replace coffee with green tea once...
...tried-and-true leaders in promoting healthy eating are coming out with their own fountain-of-youth books. The Zone Diet was a national craze a few years ago. Its creator, Barry Sears, has sold more than 3 million copies of his book The Zone. His latest is The Anti-Aging Zone (ReganBooks), which promises that Zone techniques like rigorous calorie restriction will keep you not only slim but also young. Another widely known health-food guru-cum-radio personality, Gary Null (The New Vegetarian Cookbook), will be publishing How to Live Forever: The Ultimate Anti-Aging Program (Kensington...
...banking system run on an IBM 370. When the machine whirred into life, it asked for the date. As De Jager, a mathematics major straight out of college, entered the number 77, a thought occurred to him. Did this machine care what century it was? With the impetuousness of youth, he marched off to his manager and informed him the computer would not work in the year 2000. The manager laughed and asked De Jager how old he was. This isn't going to be a problem until you're 45, he said. Don't worry, we'll sort...
...when you drank from it. But last week DEBBIE MATENOPOULOS lost her regular cushion on the couch of The View, the ABC talk show hosted by Barbara Walters and four other women of varying ages. As an unknown MTV production assistant, Matenopoulos was chosen for the show to represent youth, a task she accomplished all too well with callow contributions that often left her colleagues dumbfounded. Matenopoulos is now pursuing other projects, including a TV sitcom, a realm in which her ability to be blond and look good in clothes may be more esteemed...