“Don’t write down! Put your pencil away!” Agnes Buckley is trying in vain to head off an entertaining story about how she used to sneak out of the house as teenager. She favored boys with motorcycles. When their father hid her shoes to keep her at home. Agnes simply bypassed the front of door and leaped out the window. “Everyone is going to think that I was a troublemaker,” she laments. Agnes may have had some fun as a teen, but there is a lifetime of evidence to prove she has grown into respectability. A lifetime, that is, that already includes a full decade and a half more the 80 or so years that a girl born in the U.S. today can expect to live. Agnes was born in 1913, the year that Grand Central Terminal opened in New York City and the U.S. Postal Service began delivering packages as well as letters, which makes her 96 years old. Two of her 11 brothers and sisters are nonagenarians too. The other surviving and members of the clan are pushing 80 or well beyond it. And, as Agnes points out, “none of us have canes.” In fact, the entire Hurlbburt family is a model of long-lived, healthful vigor, which makes it perfect candidate for the Long Life Family Study, an investigation into their 80s, 90s and even 100s. The study, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, includes investigators from four U.S. research center and one Danish one. The idea, says Dr. Perls, the principal investigators at the Boston University Medical Center location, is to reveal which genetic, environmental and behavioral factors contribute to longevity. “When it comes to rare genetic variations contributing to longevity, family analysis is particularly powerful,” he says. “But just because something occurs in a family does not mean it is necessarily genetic. There are lots of behaviors and traditions that happen in families that play a role in longer life expectative. We use these families like the Hurlburts to search out what these factors are. The writer’s tone in the passage is...

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“Don’t write down! Put your pencil away!” Agnes Buckley is trying in vain to head off an entertaining story about how she used to sneak out of the house as teenager. She favored boys with motorcycles. When their father hid her shoes to keep her at home. Agnes simply bypassed the front of door and leaped out the window. “Everyone is going to think that I was a troublemaker,” she laments.

Agnes may have had some fun as a teen, but there is a lifetime of evidence to prove she has grown into respectability. A lifetime, that is, that already includes a full decade and a half more the 80 or so years that a girl born in the U.S. today can expect to live. Agnes was born in 1913, the year that Grand Central Terminal opened in New York City and the U.S. Postal Service began delivering packages as well as letters, which makes her 96 years old. Two of her 11 brothers and sisters are nonagenarians too. The other surviving and members of the clan are pushing 80 or well beyond it. And, as Agnes points out, “none of us have canes.”

In fact, the entire Hurlbburt family is a model of long-lived, healthful vigor, which makes it perfect candidate for the Long Life Family Study, an investigation into their 80s, 90s and even 100s. The study, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, includes investigators from four U.S. research center and one Danish one. The idea, says Dr. Perls, the principal investigators at the Boston University Medical Center location, is to reveal which genetic, environmental and behavioral factors contribute to longevity.

“When it comes to rare genetic variations contributing to longevity, family analysis is particularly powerful,” he says. “But just because something occurs in a family does not mean it is necessarily genetic. There are lots of behaviors and traditions that happen in families that play a role in longer life expectative. We use these families like the Hurlburts to search out what these factors are.

The writer’s tone in the passage is...

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