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...earliest extant American sources to define "love" was the 1828 Webster's New American Dictionary, which described "love between the sexes" as "a compound affection, consisting of esteem, benevolence, and animal desire." Throughout the 19th century this definition underwent significant alterations, until the same entry in the 1904 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary read, "a feeling of intimate personal sympathy and affection toward an individual of the opposite sex." In both cases, love is equated with affection. But didn't the 1828 definition pack a considerably larger wallop in terms of its candidness and discrimination...
Proponents of this plan point to the magic of compound interest and argue that individuals will have more freedom over their money and will have the opportunity to get higher benefits. Opponents claim that pensions are too risky to entrust to the private market, and that private plans undermine the social solidarity of a public program. Furthermore, they point out that privatization plans have high "transition costs." Because current workers provide benefits for current retirees, if workers divert funds into their own accounts, there would not be enough money for current retirees. Consequently, all privatization plans include hefty tax increases...
...reduced to stubs. Because any further divisions would fray the chromosomes, the cells settle into a twilight stage and eventually die. Only an enzyme called telomerase, first discovered in 1984, can repair the damaged telomeres. However, most human cells, with the exception of reproductive cells, stop making the compound during fetal development...
Even if the fountain-of-youth business doesn't pan out, however, knowing how to activate telomerase may help Geron discover how to deactivate the compound in cancer cells. That could lead to an effective anticancer drug. It wouldn't be the key to eternal life, but it might be a valuable weapon against one of life's worst scourges...
...approximately 2 million Albanians who inhabit Kosovo. Their houses, resembling modest forts, are hidden behind high walls of brick if the owners are well off or crude fences of woven sticks if they are not. Out on an isolated bluff, behind a particularly high brick wall, sits the compound of the village hoxha (religious leader), Abdyl Krasniqi...