Word: adults
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...That's why nearly every major stem cell lab began looking for an alternative approach, the most promising of which was to simply reprogram adult cells without eggs or embryos. "When I started this work, I thought it would be a 20-year, not a few-year problem," says Thomson. But sometimes science can be surprising, and in this case, all it took to accomplish a complex biological time warp was a handful of genes that suppress cells from dividing and maturing...
...entice today's more youthful retirees, who may be working part time or even full time at a hobby business, developers are rethinking all aspects of the classic adult-retirement village. They are building what they call active-adult communities for folks as young as 55 in places like Colorado, Michigan and New Jersey to accommodate those who want to stay immersed in the world, even as they step back from some of its daily nuisances. The new developments ensure mobility, with access to mass transit and garages for residents who own their own cars, which make visits to family...
...active-adult communities are the same, of course, and in many cases, their location determines what they offer. Trilogy at the Vineyards, near San Francisco, for example, has a wine-country feel to attract locals who don't want to give up the Napa lifestyle and émigrés who want to adopt it. Anthem Ranch, near Denver, takes advantage of its ski-country site, making it easy for residents to hit the slopes or hike the mountains...
...think an active-adult community might...
...dwarf, as one of the inspirations for the unusual body-to-head ratio in the cartoonist’s drawings. He writes, “Frieda had one magic quality that reached deep into ‘Peanuts’; she was an adult in a child-shaped body. In Norse mythology, dwarfs, present at the creation, representing order and reason, had magic powers to fashion a god’s or hero’s life-partner weapon...Frieda, present at the creation of ‘Peanuts,’ helped to forge Schulz’s greatest...