In a message dated 6/17/00 10:29:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
zero_powers@hotmail.com writes:
> While at my local newstand this week I spotted another mag I
> just *had* to pick up. Scientific American's Quarterly is entitled "The
> Quest to Beat Aging." I have not read it yet, but it looks like stuff
that
> (although probably a lot of old news) would be of interest to those on the
> list. It is to be displayed on newstands until 9/6/2000. Table of
> contents:
>
> [ snip}
>
> --Mediations on Quality of Life
>
> 92. Promised Land or Purgatory -- Whether old age is worth living
> depends on mental health.
> 98. Cults of the Undying -- Visions of endless life from Gulliver to
> cyberpunk.
> 104. It Smells of Immortality -- Socially speaking, long life might
> stink.
I'll have to check this out, but these last three titles suggest that SA is
up to its usual standard of short-sightedness.
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