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They are the chorus line of the evening news, the pinups of Modern Maturity: senior citizens in perpetual motion, heedless of arthritic knees, hips and shoulders, dancing, jogging and bicycling their way through a world populated exclusively by gleeful grandparents and adoring toddlers. They are, of course, fictitious. Bee Jay Janiga, 73, is a real person with arthritis and, like the ones in the commercials, she takes one of the new class of drugs known as Cox-2 inhibitors. She dances, too--in fact, she's been a professional since she began performing at the age of 14, and she still leads a touring dance troupe, the Racquettes (minimum age: 50).
What she doesn't ...