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Although nearly every cell in the body contains a full complement of genes, only a small fraction of those genes are active in any one cell. A cell on the tongue, for instance, may express genes encoding proteins required for taste sensation, while an immune cell battling infection churns out proteins lethal to bugs...
...side with people from the State Department or the CIA, and a sprinkling of old money. We lived first in a redbrick house on R Street, across from Dumbarton Oaks, and then on N Street on the other side of Wisconsin Avenue, near 34th. Neither house cost a fraction of what Hillary will...
...only after last week's emergency that Cheney's doctors finally made public a crucial measure of his coronary performance, the "ejection fraction," which indicates the heart's pumping power. A healthy heart registers within the 50% to 70% range. Cheney's is a serviceable 40%. His cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, called that a sign of moderate impairment. Cheney's doctors also announced that for 30 days Cheney will take a blood thinner, Plavix, to prevent blood clots from forming around the stent before it can be covered by the growth of new tissue...
Cheney's cholesterol level has never been disclosed; doctors have said only that it is being treated. His estimated 40% "ejection fraction," a measure of how efficiently his heart is pumping blood, suggests that Cheney's heart is "moderately impaired," according to Dr. Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and it places him at somewhat higher risk for another heart attack...
While the Academy will only pay for a fraction of full professors, it will assist members on two fronts. Stipends will be given to professors to develop teaching programs or simply to teach. In addition, some members of the Academy will serve as endowment chairs for a period of three to five years, during which their teaching activities will be funded by interest from the endowment...