1. For him she begged the gift of immortality from her fellow gods, but neglected to specify eternal youth as well. 2. Neither was a spiritualist, but both connected contemporary ideas of earthbound survival with the ancient superstition of eternal youth. 3. Almost no culture is immune to the allure of eternal youth. 4. Americans are not unique in yearning for eternal youth. 5. Baby boomers, notorious for refusing to grow old, will be encouraged to buy middle-aged merchandise like furniture by identifying it with the eternal youth of popular culture. 6. A lot of the stuff being peddled, it is hinted, will lead inexorably to eternal youth. 7. According to legend, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon spent a lot of time schlepping around the Florida jungles looking for a fountain whose waters bestowed eternal youth. 8. But he forgot to ask for eternal youth, and so he got older and older and older and older, and sicker and more frail and weaker. 9. Chicken Little, holding his Consumer Reports, has to be clucking at the quacks who claim even Fido can have eternal youth. 10. For some, though, the real appeal of estrogen might have been their hopes that it was a path to eternal youth. |