Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friday night's audience witnessed Ashong's interpretation of modern themes in the show's script and choreography. Scenes depicting police brutality, black self-deprecation, the place of religion and the immigrant experience were punctuated by ballet, soliloquy and fast-moving dance segments...
...this evidence of evil distortion by special interest contributions? Not so fast. While the AARP is quite effective at pursuing its interests, the group doesn't buy politicians. In fact, it makes no donations to politicians at all. Instead, it threatens to boot them out at the ballot box--with the help of its 33 million members. The threat of seniors' wrath, not the lure of their cash, is the key to the vast, seemingly unstoppable growth of Social Security and Medicare...
...Fast-forward to last summer, when three different groups of researchers cloned a gene that makes it possible to reactivate telomerase in human-tissue samples. The race was on to see who could make cells live longer than they normally do. Researchers from Geron and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas infected normal cells with a virus that had been genetically engineered to switch telomerase on. In every case the cells' telomeres lengthened instead of shortening, while the cells stayed healthy and continued to divide. "When we submitted the paper, we were at 20 generations past...
...verbal assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...
...Azenberg, "is that you have to run for 28 years, have five companies around the world and play to the lowest common denominator." Azenberg's Side Show was one of two decent little musicals (the other was Triumph of Love) that recently closed, unable to keep pace with the fast crowd. (Azenberg is mulling the unusual step of reopening Side Show in April, in hopes of snaring some Tony nominations...