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Death takes a holiday: new research may significantly lengthen life spans, but at what costs?

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While a multitude of research may soon uncover the key to long life, an aging population may present a big load on the social services and economics of a country. Aging has been found to be a function of the free radicals, a by product of metabolism and the hormone melatonin.

Author: Spayde, Jon
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1998
Social aspects, Aging, Genetic aspects, Geriatrics

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Activate your creativity! Simple performances, interventions, and artistic adventures for everyday living

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A group of French leftist theorists, artists, and pranksters active in the late 1950s and 60s, pioneered a critique of capitalism that suggested imaginative acts of resistance, refusal, and mind-alteration. Certain activities to enlighten one's routine life are suggested.

Author: Pesco, Jo del
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2004
Trickster, Tricksters, Absurd (Philosophy), Absurdity

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We'll always have Paris

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The decline of the French theory's reign marked by the works of a group of French philosophers and cultural critics is discussed. The French Theory gave an altered image of the human being, often a bloodless affair, and hence it lost its political effectiveness.

Author: Spayde, Jon
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2004
Evaluation, Philosophy, French, French philosophy

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