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Rawlins' plan also would amend the council's constitution to guarantee that five percent of its budget be reserved for block grants to house committees...
...1970s, biochemists hypothesized that the same reaction might occur in the bodies of people suffering from diabetes, as excess glucose combined with proteins in the course of metabolism. When sugars and proteins bond, they attract other proteins, which form a sticky, weblike network that could stiffen joints, block arteries and cloud clear tissues like the lens of the eye, leading to cataracts. Since diabetics suffer from all these ailments, the biochemists guessed they were right...
Still other researchers are using what they've learned about telomeres and the other cellular mechanisms to attack the diseases that keep the very old from becoming still older. Researchers at Geron Pharmaceuticals recently published a study in which telomerase RNA was used to block the enzyme in a cancer culture, leading to withering of telomeres and the death of the no-longer-so-prolific cells. Elsewhere, investigators are looking into using the anticaramelization drug pimagedine to help clear arteries and improve cardiac health. Remove heart disease from the constellation of late-life illnesses, and you add three years...
...lure back Saturday-morning viewers focuses on copying a big secret of Nickelodeon's success: promotion, promotion, promotion. Fox, for example, has tripled the marketing and promotion budget, in part to advertise its kids' fare on cable and radio stations. ABC is now using its prime-time Friday-night block, which includes youth-oriented series like Clueless, to aggressively promote shows airing the next morning...
However, we are also pleased that the council has continued to fund activities in the houses through block grants of $500 to the house committees. Some council members would have liked to review how those grants are to be spent in an unfortunate return to centralized authority. But this entirely paternalist measure was changed for the simpler request of Student Affairs Committee Chair Eric M. Nelson '99 that the committee be informed, even after the fact, of how the grants are used. Still, the houses should not be required to report to the committee at all. Why are the council...