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...some smokers and former smokers more susceptible than others to cancer. The two variants - or differences in a single nucleotide - exist in about 34% of the population and occur in genes in the same region of the long arm of chromosome 15. Those genes code for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, cell-surface proteins that selectively bind to nicotine molecules. Once nicotine attaches to these receptors, a series of changes in the cells is triggered: in the lungs, for example, cells are pushed into rapid, uncontrolled growth, which promotes the growth of new feeder blood vessels, creating, in turn, a particularly hospitable...
...technological innovation. The tournament uses manual, not electronic, scoreboards, while simultaneously running a website offering up-to-the-second updates. Sandwiches at the venue cost no more than $2.50, even as tickets swap hands for hundreds outside the gates. Spectators are kicked off the property if caught using a cell phone, even though buried under the course's fairways are thousands of feet of high-definition television cable, irrigation pipes wired to an on-site weather radar, and automatic suction systems designed to remove surface water from the greens...
...beams line the walls of a married couple’s farmhouse in the Adams House Drama Society’s production of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times.” These white beams seem more and more like the bars of a jail cell as the play progresses, trapping the characters in the nightmares that are their own lives. Perception becomes reality as past and present blend together in a battle of words and memories. Pinter’s play provides complicated source material, and this production—executive produced by Simon...
...COMMUNICATIONS 50% Percentage decline in British pay-phone use in the past three years because of the increasing popularity of cell phones 30,000 Approximate number of iconic red phone booths-one-third of the nation's total - that have been removed in the past six years as a result of decreased usage...
...Decline in British pay-phone use in the past three years as a result of the increasing popularity of cell phones...