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...Little Smart Talk 'n Tell $30; VTech; ages 3 to 6 Looking gratifyingly like Mom or Dad's cellular, complete with antenna and stand, this toy phone plays jaunty tunes while teaching children shapes and counting. Its special feature is that parents can program a phone number in their home, and the toy will repeat it to kids, ask them to dial it and learn...
...card is presumed to be a signal from Nicholson to his Russian handlers that he wanted a meeting in Switzerland earlier than previously scheduled. Seasoned spies say Nicholson's method is almost quaint. An up-to-the-minute agent today would have cellular phones and portable computer linkups. "Nobody would use those techniques today unless you were an awful agent or cutting corners like hell," says David Whipple, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers...
...talked incessantly about Nicole in the weeks preceding the murders, including golfing buddies of his like Alan Austin, were wrong. Even tangible evidence like his phone records were wrong: at one point, Petrocelli put up a display of all Simpson's phone calls from his residence and his cellular phone on the day of June 12. Simpson acknowledged the eight calls to ex-girlfriend Paula Barbieri--who has offered the potentially damaging news in her deposition, and may soon say in court, that she broke up with him that very day--and the two calls to Nicole. But the records...
...works. The genetic sequence he discovered codes for the enzyme helicase, which is responsible for unzipping the DNA double helix before it replicates. If this unzipping is disrupted, helicase can't tweeze out mutations that randomly occur and instead allows them to pass through to the next cellular generation. Accumulate enough glitches, and diseases of aging develop. "We know that DNA is being damaged at a high rate," he says. "Knowing that a helicase is responsible gets us closer to solving the mystery...
Still other researchers are using what they've learned about telomeres and the other cellular mechanisms to attack the diseases that keep the very old from becoming still older. Researchers at Geron Pharmaceuticals recently published a study in which telomerase RNA was used to block the enzyme in a cancer culture, leading to withering of telomeres and the death of the no-longer-so-prolific cells. Elsewhere, investigators are looking into using the anticaramelization drug pimagedine to help clear arteries and improve cardiac health. Remove heart disease from the constellation of late-life illnesses, and you add three years...