Word: functional
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ignoring, at drugstores, supermarkets and mass-merchandising outlets like Wal-Mart and Target. TIME asked the Nielsen Co. to identify the best- and worst-performing product categories during this recession, and the findings are quite revealing. In general, people are buying more food to prepare at home, a function of their eating out less often at restaurants, which are suffering. At the same time, they're forsaking home furnishings and more discretionary items. "The American consumer is clearly getting back to basics," says Todd Hale, Nielsen's senior vice president of consumer and shopping insights. "The philosophy out there seems...
...This Lent, sacrifice the vulgar bibulous customs of your college peers. Turn down the boom box and raise the lights. Sip, do not chug. And let the drink in your hand nurse, not eliminate the need for, conversation and charm. Soon, form will follow function. Trade your mass-produced American lager for a Trappist brew, crafted lovingly in a monastery according to a recipe perfected over the centuries. Instead of insipid vodka, open a bottle of aromatic and complex gin—a challenge, indeed, but a meet reward for those with patience and perseverance. And, finally, put down...
...Joslin Center. “It’s been very inhibiting,” Weir said of the federal restrictions, adding that regulations had prevented him and his colleagues from starting a project that involved injecting embryonic stem cells into animals to study how well the cells function when transplanted. Because the project could not receive federal support, he would have had to spend over $10,000 to purchase separate animal cages and other equipment—too high a price tag for the private donors who would have had to fund it. Weir said he and his colleagues...
...pathway, causing apoptosis or cell suicide of these damaged and potentially cancerous cells. ATR is a protein kinase that is responsible for facilitating the replication of DNA, especially in damaged and dividing cells. While ATR plays a minimal role in normal cells, recently damaged and precancerous cells need the function of ATR, Nghiem explained. The researchers determined that low levels of caffeine have no effect on normal cells. The study specifically addressed the preventative effects of caffeine for cases of Squamous Cell Carcinoma—the second most common type of skin cancer in the United States...
...assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital in Boston—said that although vitamin D is commonly associated only with the development and maintenance of strong bones, it should be seen as a compound that human immune systems need in order to function properly. Mansbach said that this study is by no means conclusive and said that further research will be necessary to confirm the finding. “We have found a strong association between vitamin D deficiency and respiratory infection,” he said. “However, association does...