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...responses were just the opposite, however. Harvard athletes from the four holiday-traveling teams made it crystal-clear that athletics take precedence over leisure. In fact, they were looking forward to holiday competition on the road as a chance to bond and grow stronger as a team...
Previous assumptions operated under the theory that the nitrogen atom forms a strong ionic bond with a counterion on the brain's target molecule...
...unveiled on celluloid last year in the James Bond flick Goldeneye. It's the first time a prop may have been as fetching as the star. BMW is adding a $35,900 six-cylinder model to give some American-style muscle to the pretty four-cylinder job now available...
...they metabolize energy. One of the most troublesome by-products of this process is a species of oxygen molecule known as a free radical--essentially an ordinary molecule with an extra electron. This addition creates an electrical imbalance that the molecule seeks to rectify by careening about, trying to bond with other molecules or structures, including DNA. A lifetime of this can lead to a lot of damaged cells, which may lead to a range of disorders, including cancer and the more generalized symptoms of aging like wrinkles and arthritis...
...with sugars, causing the surface to darken and, in some cases, turn soft and sticky. In the 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...