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Boosting IGF-1 levels is only half the story. Sweeney is also trying to tip the balance by shutting down myostatin, a compound that inhibits IGF-1 activity in the muscle. The pharmaceutical maker Wyeth Ayerst is testing a myostatin blocker in early trials of healthy humans, and hopes that it may become a new treatment option for those with muscular dystrophy or for the elderly who have become frail from the normal muscle wasting that occurs with aging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Doctors Help The Dopers | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

Among other changes to the rules, defenders attempting to block extra points will no longer be allowed to run headlong towards the line of scrimmage before leaping and landing on an opposing blocker without first bumping into a member of their own team. Maconaghy equated the 15-yard penalty to roughing the passer, arguing that an unsuspecting and unprotected player should never be left exposed to such force and vulnerable to unnecessary injury...

Author: By Michael R. James and Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Football Picked in Ivy Media Poll To Finish Second | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

...become stars. Nobody these days graduates from Broadway musicals to mainstream celebrity, as Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Julie Andrews, Streisand and dozens of others did. Why would any young person would want to be part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that pop crooning is a demonstration of wild vibrato work and orgasmic emoting? My friend, the distinguished actor George Grizzard, watches "American Idol" and shouts with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

Harvard graduates just one senior, middle blocker Juan Cardet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Volleyball Fails To Take Advantage of Quick Start | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...We’re sort of having trouble starting off strong this season,” senior middle blocker Mariah Pospisil said after the BC game. “We’re playing like a comeback team. It felt like we started playing when we were already down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Volleyball Starts Slow, Takes Fourth in Ivies | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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