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Those muscles atrophied, leaving a huge opportunity for someone like Matt.

“Although his boss had to pretend to embrace the family-friendly nature of the town whose newspaper he ran,” Roman observes, “privately he was a man with a heart as atrophied as his calf muscles.”

Social skills and conversational ease have stiffened and atrophied.

When followed over several years, the super-agers’ brains atrophied at a slower rate than average.

Last month, the nonprofit Long Beach Post, which expertly covered the port city while the Press-Telegram atrophied, laid off nearly everyone.