Word: breeding
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Across the continent, at the University of California at Irvine, evolutionary biologist Michael Rose has created a community of fruit flies almost 1 million strong. The fleck-size insects spend their time doing what fruit flies do: they eat, they breed, they fly. But they do it for a lot longer. Fruit flies in Rose's colony may survive for up to 140 days. In the absence of predators, fruit flies in the wild get just 70. A person with this kind of longevity would easily exceed 150 years...
...world, investigators are beginning to suspect, to their growing surprise and excitement, that what works in flies and worms may work for people too. From species to species, genus to genus, the cellular mechanisms responsible for aging appear to be the same. Armed with that knowledge, a new breed of longevity specialists is beginning to tease out answers to two of the great mysteries of life: Why do we age? And even more important, What can we do about...
...will they go? "The moderates have the best argument," says neoconservative turned neoliberal Michael Lind, author of Up from Conservatism. "It remains to be seen if they have the same organization." Republican centrists are a dwindling breed. In the Senate, conciliators like Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, William Cohen of Maine--and Bob Dole--are leaving or have left. The G.O.P. leadership there is dominated by "movement" conservatives like Trent Lott of Mississippi and Don Nickles of Oklahoma. And the House leadership--Gingrich, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay--is Exhibit A in the argument that hard-right Southerners have taken over...
JEFFREY KLUGER is well qualified to write about the new breed of smaller, simpler Mars ships set to begin launching this week. He was the co-author, with former astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon, the book that served as the basis for the popular 1995 film Apollo 13. Kluger knows that when it comes to designing spacecraft, less is indeed more. "NASA engineers who worked in the old lunar program liked to point out that an Apollo spacecraft had 5.6 million individual parts," he recalls. "Even if the ship functioned with 99.9% efficiency, you could still expect...
...nine teams, while the men registered dead last. In light of last year's finishes, when the women finished second only to repeat champion Dartmouth and the men finished a relatively respectable sixth, this year's showing would appear to discourage even the most hearty of the long distance breed...