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...Rosen, a slight, gentle-mannered 70-year-old Cal Tech Ph.D. who predates the space age by a dog's age. Yet every time you watch a live-television feed from distant parts of the earth, chances are the signal has bounced off one of the satellites he helped design for Hughes Aircraft in his 37-year career. "He is uncommonly brilliant," says his biggest fan, younger brother Ben, 63. "He's a national treasure...
...esoteric and complicated as some of this may be at this stage of exploration, the end goal is abundantly clear: intervening sufficiently in the aging process to improve the quality of the later years and perhaps even extend them. "Ultimately," says Smith, "we'd like to be able to design drugs that have an effect on disabling processes...
Ultimately, scientists would like to figure out how genetic defects cause depression, and then to design drugs to correct whatever has gone awry. Gene mapping would be particularly helpful to people at risk for manic-depressive illness: although lithium and related drugs usually relieve the manic episodes, current antidepressants are often ineffective against the acute depressive ones. Says Ascher: "That's the real frontier...
Greenough Hall, Hurlbut hall, Pennypacker Hall and Adams House residents may vote at Gund Hall at the Graduate School of Design at 48 Quincy...
Carol S. Chiles, who is with the architectural firm in charge of design, Tsoi-Kobus and Associates, presented detailed drawings and models showing the new arrangement of Grendel's and Tweeter Etc. at the meeting, which lasted more than five hours...