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Farmer brought his laundry basket full of coffee and canned milk back to his Napoleon Avenue home, which had no form of communication except a land telephone. The line would determine his family??€™s survival when his aunt called, telling them that floodwaters were fast rising on the northern side of the city. Farmer drove out at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning...
...finding by the HMS researchers—who included Dudley Lamming, Oliver Medvedik, and Magda Latorre-Esteves, in addition to Sinclair—reveals that Sir2 does not serve this function alone. Rather, a group of related genes—the Sir2 family??€”plays a major role in regulating lifespan. Sinclair said that one of the genes in the family appears to control functions such as fat metabolism and cell survival, while another controls body temperature and the efficiency with which an organism uses energy, and yet others protect against diabetes...
Houghton, chairman and former chief executive officer of his family??€™s glassworks company, Corning Inc., is likely at the tail end of his service on the Corporation. At 69 years old, he is a year away from the board’s informal age limit, though the rule has been flouted before. Houghton’s 70th birthday is in April...
...searching, I realized that my new sagacious, erudite, and non-pedantic ways were undoubtedly due to the fact that this was the first time I was visiting Brazil since enrolling at Harvard. Yes, I was now coming back to where I was born, coming back to see my entire family??€”and, so help me, they were going to see just what one scholastic year in the Ivy League does to a man. A bearded...
...continues the streak. It is the story of widow Tessie Lockhart and her 13-year-old daughter Dinah as they move from Carbondale, Illinois, to Gainesville, Florida, in the 1950s. The novel traces their interaction with the Florida town’s residents, particularly the prominent Landy family??€”with whom the Lockharts quickly become intertwined—and the historical events of the next 20 years...