Word: fruitfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daily sweep from morning to night. Now, at 77, Benzer is searching through our genes for a sort of clock of clocks that tells us where we are in the sweep from the cradle to the grave and decides how fast we age. Recently he discovered a mutant fruit fly that lives more than 100 days, about one-third longer than the rest of the madding crowd in a fly bottle. What makes the difference is a single gene, which Benzer calls Methuselah...
...library administrators spent on the project, and the costs of printing, delivering, and stuffing each of the 6,000-plus folders with 17 separate pamphlets and cases, and the project cost could creep toward $100,000. A "Compliments of Harvard College Library" card, the kind that comes with corporate fruit baskets, adorns the top of each folder...
...know. I had Jell-O every day, sometimes with some fruit in it if we were having a big fete...
DINNER White-bean soup with winter greens, mixed-vegetable enchiladas, fruit tart...
LUNCH Roast-beef sandwich with nonfat cheese, mayo, lettuce and tomato, artificially sweetened yogurt, fruit...