Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...academy has pushed back the age for the first of three hepatitis-B shots, which also contain thimerosal, from birth to two to six months in children whose mothers test negative for the disease...
...Every age must develop its own version of the unobtainable and chimerical quick fix: the right abracadabra to select the winning lottery number, the proper prayer to initiate the blessed millennium, the correct formula to construct the philosopher's stone. In a technological age, we seek the transforming gene to elicit immediate salvation from within...
...excellent and provocative study of Joe Tsien and his colleagues will, one may safely predict, be widely misread in the false light of this age-old hope--combined with some equally age-old fallacies of human reasoning...
Pundits in our age of rapid misinformation will surely transmit the story as a claim that the gene for intelligence has been cloned and that a human smart pill for routine production of kiddie geniuses lies just around the millennial corner. None of this punditry, however, will bear any relationship to current realities or reasonable prospects for the short-term future. Even so, the mice studied by Tsien et al. could help us correct two common errors in our thinking about genetics and intelligence...
NAME: Martina "Not Navratilova" Hingis OCCUPATION: Teen-age tennis phenom BEST PUNCH: After Serena and Venus' father predicted an all-Williams U.S. Open final, Hingis said he had a "big mouth" and the family "talk...