November 1993

  • Mental function with age is largely determined by mental lifestyle, the impact of chronic disease and flexibility of the mind.

  • Abuse is not about lack of love but about feeling powerless.
  • Goes behind prison bars to interview four female inmates all serving 20-years-or-more sentences in a maximum-security prison. Their stories tell of guilt, innocence and the roots of violence but also of healing and the beginning of forgiveness.

  • An interview with Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of 'Ageless Body, Timeless Mind,' discussing a redefining of aging, collective responsibility in illness, religion's effect on the world, and more.

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Inside the Heart of Marital Violence

Abuse is not about lack of love but about feeling powerless.

The cradle of love

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Spiritual neglect

Age is sage

We got it all wrong

Reading is believing

How men measure up

Pretty women

Time-shifting

Dress for suc-sex?

Images of age

Twin-Tower terror

A cloistered life

How the body ages

Adulterers Anonymous

A pain in the apse

Trips of the tongue

My life as a hexagon

A Hormone from Hell

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How the Mind Ages

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