Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school basketball coach and I've grown up around basketball all my life," Merchant said. "It was great playing for him, because if I didn't understand something, I could just go home and ask him. It's different now that I can't just go home and ask the coach questions, but the entire coaching staff has been just so helpful. They've just made it so easy, and they really want to teach us and help us learn...
...People ask us that all the time," said Melissa. "But I just tell them that basketball will never be as important to me as my sister. I do feel that she has got such great potential, but I'm not threatened by the fact that I can make her a better player than...
...wouldn't want to live as long as Methuselah, myself. But I would like to reach old age alive and kicking. My hope is that the science of life will mature fast enough so that 30 years from now, when my sons begin to ask those eternal questions about growing old, I can look at them and say, "I recommend...
...idea of implanting brain stem cells, while not as dramatic as swapping whole brains, also raises intriguing philosophical questions. "Sometimes at seminars when I talk about my work," says Snyder, "somebody will ask me whether the introduction of these stem cells will alter memory." Do the newly generated cells distort or erase old memories? Or will the transplanted stem cells bring with them memories of their upbringing in a Petri dish...
Talk about wishful thinking. One might as well ask if there will be a war that will end all wars, or a pill that will make us all good looking. It is also a perfectly understandable question, given that half a million Americans will die this year of a disorder that is often discussed in terms that make it seem less like a disease than an implacable enemy. What tuberculosis was to the 19th century, cancer is to the 20th: an insidious, malevolent force that frightens people beyond all reason--far more than, say, diabetes or high blood pressure...