to find a more realistic path, i'm at the massachusetts institute of technology to meet a pioneer in longevity research, dr. leonard guarente. he's taking on a big problem that most everyone will eventually face. - as you get older, you lose muscle mass and you gain fat mass. - okay. - and both of those things are bad. - sure. lenny is a firm believer in the power of exercise to keep our bodies healthier for longer. - by impacting aging, you can not only improve health, but help mitigate diseases. - [maren] at his cutting edge lab, his team identified the first longevity gene and this breakthrough opened the door to the possibility that we might one day control the aging process in the human organisms. - i think the best case scenario is attempting really to maintain what we call health span. if people live healthier lives for as long as possible and really compress morbidity to a very short period at the end of life, that's mgoal. - instead of slowly declining in our sixties, plagued by things like heart disease, dementia and cancer, lenny thinks we could live until 90 and then make

former nasa astronaut who now teaches at the massachusetts institute of technology. _ at least one 162tude quake, was felt, a—hundred kilometres away in the capital, jakarta — where offices were evacuated, in the central business district. valdya baraputri from the bbc�*s indonesian service is there. i can tell you when the earthquake happened, iam injakarta, 100 kilometres away from the epicentre of the earthquake, the capital city of indonesia where i am based with the bbc. when it happened i was working from home on the 31st floor. comedy told your vocation is, the stronger the tremor. indonesia has dozens of earthquakes every year in indonesia about the tremor of this earthquake is the most intense i have experienced in a long time. the earthquake is a 5.6 richter scale magnitude. it also forces people out of tall buildings, government and business buildings in the area here injakarta, including people who are working in bbc indonesia's office. the tremor lasted for more than a minute. people stayed out for longer in case of another wave of earthquake. the location or the epicentre

the department of linguistics at the university of arizona and professor emeritus at massachusetts institute of technologye he taught for more than half a century. he spoke to democracy now! this week about staughton lynd. >> he had quite a remarkable life. he he snificantntellectl contributions. one of the most important for me , intellectual origins of american radicalism tt came out in a late 1960's. . extensive and courageous work in the earlyays ear days ofhe otests against theietnam war . e measures he tk, nscienous measures in opposition to the greatest crime since the second world war at a time when very few werengaged later on through other activities. was treated very shabbily by the ademic pfession anbyhe tellectual world, political world. went on -- went to law school. we on to become prominent in many important activities. the most significant, in my view, were the critical ros he played in working with working people in cmuniti in the rust belt trying to orcome the wrkage of neoliberal -- supporting programs for worker control of industrynd services. very significa itself in the future, que