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SCIENCE one else, while middle-aged people taking up exercise will reduce their risk.

Maintained exercise can delay the process of ageing. Thus President Reagan is actually fitter than sume SO supporters a half or a third of his age!

As peuple age, their muscles waste away and they lose calciur from their bones, making them more brittle. The elderly are therefore more liable tu fall and break bones. However, exercise can counteract the prucesses of muscle wasting and loss of calcium.

If you are intending to take up exercise, you should start gradually to build up your stamina Exercise should be steady and aerobic, like swimming, running or cycling, though weight-training can be a useful supplement. You should warm up and warm down properly, avoiding hot showers and not having a fag straight after. Failure to do this will bring a small risk of a potentially fatal uneven heart beat. Middle-aged people taking up e.g. squash, should first have a check-up for heart trouble.

If, like me, you find it difficult to set aside time for exercise, try and fit it into your ordinary activities, or choose something useful or enjoyable. For example I cycle because it gets me places, I study Kung Fu because it gives me a useful skill and I attend dance classes because I enjoy it.

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Information: New Scientist. 150 'ears ago six men were sent 1o prison camps in Australia for breaking the law. That law was the Combination Acts, which outlawed the coming together of workers to form a trade union. The six men in question were found guilty of secretly taking illegal oaths to set up an Agricultural Labourers' Friendly Society, in Tolpuddle, Dorset, in 1834.

In London, demonstrations of 40-50,000 workers forced the government to take back its decision, and in 1836 the "Tolpuddle Martyrs' returned to Britain.

Labour and trade union leaders today, who are so afraid of breaking anti-working class laws, would do well to remember that it was the heroism of workers like those from Tolpuddle, and the thousands who supported them, that created the labour movement we have today claims of social justice against legal and constitutional power. Yet this class war is folded like a handkerchief along the old lines of sexual, racial and political stereotyping and tucked neatly into the top pocket of an executive suit.

Few things strike the audience as being clearer indicators of realism than well-observed and well-imitated speech and gesture. Once these are got right almost any reactionary, brain-boggling script can pass as realistic and -when it is first broadcast - even fresh.

The measure of The Sweeney's success and of its failure is likewise the measure of the difference between a class able to recognise an image of itself and a class able to create one which imposes its own realism.

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