[LINK] Weekend Magazine - Immortality - A Peek into the future - Tomorrows NY Times Magazine

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?_r=0]

Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
...Plainly speaking, it refused to die. It appeared to age in reverse, 
growing younger and younger until it reached its earliest stage of 
development, at which point it began its life cycle anew....
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I expect to see Wellness climics in the Palm V alley region start 
offering Turritopsis dohrnii injections in lips  and cheeks [followed by 
a slap] any day now....

But wait there's an Australian angle to this as well...
Quote/ [Page 2 same article]
...Worried that the town of White Beach would lose its white beach, 
according to a city official, Wakayama Prefecture began in 1989 to 
import sand from Perth, Australia, 4,700 miles away. Over 15 years, 
Shirahama dumped 745,000 cubic meters of Aussie sand on its beach, 
preserving its eternal whiteness --- at least for now. ...
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So now we are exporting sand... Cool. [For when we run out of iron ore...]
And of course by page 4 we get to the mad scientist that hand feeds 
polyps by cutting up micro shrimp with syrings needles....