Daily Archives: March 9, 2006

Prepare for Aging or Prepare for Living?

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I know my choice!

Nevertheless, the belief that aging is an immutable process, programmed by evolution, is now known to be wrong. In recent decades, our knowledge of how, why, and when aging processes take place has progressed so much that many scientists now believe that this line of research, if sufficently promoted, could benefit people alive today.Indeed, the science of aging has the potential to do what no drug, surgical procedure, or behavior modification can do-extend our years of youthful vigor and simultaneously postpone all the costly, disabling, and lethal conditions expressed at later ages.

These writers are on the modest end of gerontology research but even the programs they propose will do more to solve the problems with health care systems here and abroad than all the quibbling going on over how to get someone else to pay for your health care costs. Let’s earn the longevity dividend.

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Stopping Thugs and Terrorists

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State sponsored terrorism needs to be stopped:

Springtime is on the way and already hundreds of farmers are tending pale-green shoots of Afghanistan’s chief crop and economic mainstay: opium poppies.
It looks to be a bumper year. Some 320,000 acres are blanketed in rows of sprouts that eventually produce almost 90 percent of the world’s heroin.
But drug agents are counterattacking. An army of 500 tractor-driving Afghans hopes to plow the plants under before producers grow powerful enough to corrupt the country’s fledgling government.

These 500 thugs and their sponsors have no higher standing than common thieves and murderers.

If the Afghani government will not live up to its sole responsibility which is to protect the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of its citizens then these farmers have every right to form their own protective associations and deal appropriately with those who would destroy their property, land and lives.