11.   Modest amounts of alcohol are known to decrease heart disease risk and may lengthen life.

12.   Powell says companies have long accepted equipment maintenance costs to lengthen the life of computers and copying machines.

13.   Q. Will drinking red wine lengthen my life?

14.   Tannin, an organic compound found in bark and wood and in the stems and skins of grapes, gives structure to red wine and can lengthen its life.

15.   The way to lengthen your life, Perls pointed out, is to add healthy years.

16.   Thin, brittle plastics will break, while thick, pliable plastics and metals will stand up to abuse, lengthening the life of the appliance.

17.   Itai Arad, who suffers from the neuromuscular killer, will refuse to accept medical treatment that would lengthen his life, said attorney Yitzhak Hoshen.

18.   Meanwhile, back in Oslo, Bauge continues to work on ways to lengthen life.

19.   Such surgery often makes men impotent or incontinent and may not lengthen their lives, especially if they are elderly and the cancers are slow-growing.

20.   Those who inherit the new century can expect huge strides in medicine to lengthen their lives, and in communications to bring nations closer together.