In this month's Atlantic cover article, The Case Against High-School Sports, Amanda Ripley argues that school-sponsored sports programs should be seriously cut.
The scheme was overtaken by the economic crisis, and the stranglehold of BAA and BA, both of which have a lot invested in Heathrow, has prevented its revival.
In his view, ageing is about the accumulation of damage, and is not under tight genetic control. Sirtuins will, he says, probably be but a small part of a more complicated picture.
Not until the war France in 1697 did William III persuade Parliament to create a professional standing army, and Parliaments price for doing so was to keep the army under tight legislative control.
During the 1920s, most advocates of scientific management, Frederick Taylor's method for maximizing workers' productivity by rigorously routinizing their jobs, opposed the five-day workweek.