Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie satirizes everything from the cell-phone culture to celebrity fawning, but its director, Frank Oz, knows that satire--especially show-biz satire--is what closes on Saturday night. So his style is casually naturalistic. He makes you believe this goofiness might really be happening. You know what? Somewhere, not necessarily in the movies, not necessarily so merrily, it probably...
Biochemists have known about SAMe for years, although they usually call it SAM, which is short for S-adenosylmethionine, a compound made by every cell in the body. (I don't know why it was renamed. Maybe the dietary-supplements folks think Sammy sounds sexier than Sam.) Turns out that SAM or SAMe plays a pivotal role in hundreds of biochemical reactions in the body. It's a methyl donor, meaning that it can attach a molecule made of one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms to various proteins, lipids and even snippets of DNA. Such methylation reactions are important...
...what about my principles? Had I gone soft when presented with a gleaming new PC? Not quite. The company had no idea I don't drive a BMW or own a cell phone or make $150,000 per annum, contrary to my claims on the application. And I decided I didn't really care if Free-PC knew which websites I frequented, so long as it kept its promise never to tell a marketer that I log on to cnn.com three times a week and check my stock portfolio every day. I even found a simple way to make...
...Proportion of Americans with cell phones...
...Proportion of Americans who say they would rather visit a dentist than sit next to anyone using a cell phone...