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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Attack on Aging | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

Glenn certainly isn't getting any younger ? he's 15 years the senior of Stori Musgraze, currently the oldest ever cosmonaut. But that's the whole point ? NASA will be able to look at the same astronaut, then and now, to discover whether old age makes any difference in weightlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Small Step For a Senior | 1/15/1998 | See Source »

How could irrepressible actor QUENTIN TARANTINO, after casting himself in all his directorial outings, not put himself in Jackie Brown? A careful listening will discover him giving a shrill, stilted delivery of lines like "end of messages" as the voice of PAM GRIER'S answering machine. Not quite as sly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Given no choice, I tell myself that within her rejiggered brain cells, in the reconstructed network of 10 trillion nerves inside the hippocampus, the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe, she may discover different kinds of happiness. Perhaps it is oddly fulfilling--the complete use of a brain--to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alzheimer's: This Long Disease | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Set in contemporary Hoboken, New Jersey, the play opens as Julie (Edith H. Bishop '00) confesses her longtime obsession with computers and technology to friend and neighbor Claire (Claire E. Farley '01). With little experience in high school and even less self-confidence, Julie explains that she fears her own...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Old Working Girl, We Hardly Knew Thee | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

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