Word: grin
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...controversy over A2M continues to smolder. Roses, now worldwide director of genetics at Glaxo Wellcome, says he and his colleagues looked at that gene. "I even filed a patent on it," he says with a grin. But he's now convinced that it's not the right gene. Tanzi, however, refuses to acknowledge defeat. "There's a ton of biology that suggests it's a good candidate," he says. Among other things, A2M appears to mediate the rate at which neurons produce beta amyloid...
...around his barges, sorting old car seats and lawn ornaments and tractor chassis into separate piles for recycling. All sandy hair and freckles, dressed in a life jacket, cap and khaki shorts and sporting a pair of wraparound dark shades, Pregracke could be a latter-day Huck Finn. His grin is impish, his body compact and coiled. Two lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires onto a towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen of 12-hour...
Either way, as I push through the crowded train, they are easy to spot, their furrowed brows of concentration broken only by a slightly goofy grin. Eye contact between us is brief - this is New York, after all - but knowing...
...surprise. Lundberg recently presided at a ceremony at one of Elektrim's power plants where, according to Polish tradition, she smashed a bottle of champagne on a new boiler and became its official guardian. "I am the first godmother of a boiler in Poland!" she says with a grin. For most Poles, Lundberg continues to shatter all molds...
...kitsch by Paul Jamin, Brennus and his Loot, 1893, showing a barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission and despair; all-conquering Brennus surveys them with the Bertie Wooster grin of a boulevardier entering a whorehouse. This is archaeology with...