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...longevity may be the presence of two genes. One is called apoe; get the wrong version and you may be subject to high cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease. Centenarians tend to have the right version. They are also more likely than average to have a particular version of the ace gene, which influences blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Jan. 10, 1994 | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

Kong's first serve fell for an ace between two motionless Tigers. Her next serve was passed into the net. Two serves later, Princeton still couldn't quite solve her serve, and their spike attempts did not even make it over...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Spikers Play Two, Win One | 11/6/1993 | See Source »

...LINK WRAY--Ace of Spaces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB'S Underground Rock Top 20 | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

Caples, an All-American herself at Massachusetts, also pointed to the defense. Sophomore netminder Jessica Milhollin has collected a respectable 20 saves in her two games in goal, but without the offensive support she needs Milhollin may be feeling like pitching ace Steve Avery on the pre-McGriff Atlanta Braves...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Wet Start for Stickwomen | 9/21/1993 | See Source »

Wharton was a poet of repression. Another New Yorker, Martin Scorsese, is the bard of belligerence, the ace depictor of raging bulls. What could Wharton mean to Scorsese? Everything, it turns out: his faithful adaptation of The Age of Innocence (written with Jay Cocks, a TIME contributor) is a gravely beautiful fairy tale of longing and loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Fellow in Old New York | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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