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World Science Festival 2011 Examines Aging, Human Life Span, Memory and Genius

At New York's World Science Festival, experts dissected how science can arrest aging, extend human life, and erase traumatic memories, while luminaries like Broadway director Julie Taymor and composer Philip Glass debated what makes a genius. Casey Schwartz reports.

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