Giving The Whole Place A Face-Lift

"There is a paradox at the heart of the debate on aging. All the recipes for averting the effects of senescence— the anti-wrinkle oils, the vitamin supplements, the testosterone shots, the strict dieting regimens—are plainly little better than snake oil."

-- Matt Ridley, spitting some of that good ol' common sense for life's runway - though it's completely out of fashion - like his listeners are from the Barbizon School of Modeling, instead of The Wall Street Journal.