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...that, even before he was wealthy. We don't live long enough, the argument goes, to waste time doing something we don't love. Few people, however, make even a small fraction of a small fraction of what Buffett does. And for those desperate for a paycheck, sometimes any clock to punch will...
...After playing even for most of the second half, Harvard trailed, 60-53, with one minute remaining in regulation. Senior guard Drew Housman decided to take the game into his own hands. After dribbling out much of the shot clock, Housman drained a long three-pointer that brought the Crimson within four and got the crowd on its feet...
...across the half-court mark before he picked it up and only waited 2.6 seconds to drain a trey of his own. Harvard had pushed within three points and still had an ample 31 seconds of play time, thanks to Lin’s conservation of the clock...
...Before television, few would have noticed Nixon's perspiration problem, or his basset-hound jowls, whose stubble shadow always read five o'clock. He had a pitchman's handsome baritone voice, and relied on it to counterfeit intimacy, but his oily modulations couldn't erase the public's suspicion of phoniness; a salesman can't close the deal if his prospective customers know what they're hearing is just a pitch. On TV, his stabs at an intimate geniality showed the effort more than the effect, as if invisible wires were pulling his mouth into a smile. This...
Fancy procedures like Botox, face lifts, and microdermabrasion are among the many tricks that can give aging skin a mask of youth. But Harvard Medical School researchers may have found a gene that can actually hold back the clock. If the quantity of a protein that regulates gene expression and fixes damaged cells is increased, genes may be less likely to deteriorate, according to the study. Cells that remain in better condition for longer age more slowly, theoretically allowing organisms to remain younger longer. “People may have an extended lifespan,” said Raul Mostoslavsky...