History of the Self: Aging : Throughline Defeating old age? In 1899, Elie Metchnikoff woke up in Paris to learn he had done just that. At least, that's what the newspaper headlines said.

More than 150 years ago, a great injustice against Chinese-born residents of Los Angeles made headlines, in part because of the sheer brutality it demonstrated. But today, many Angelenos are ...