Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called my first doll Elizabeth, the quintessential American girl's name. Elizabeth was always my favorite name, the name I intended for my first child. We would call her Liza, though, to set her gently apart from the gaggle of Lizzies and Beths. But as I grow to understand my parents' reasoning in naming me, their logic makes more and more sense, and the chance that I would give my own child such a typical name fades...
After a lifetime of explanations and pronunciation lessons, would I bestow a Hebrew name on my own child? Absolutely. For the same reasons my parents used, I want my children to grow up thinking Judaism is something to wear proudly on your name...
...scourge of the elderly: a progressive, relentless disorder. Doctors have greatly improved the accuracy of iagnosis, but they can neither cure Alzheimer's disease nor arrest its victims' horrifying decline, as their minds--and the memories that fill them--grow inexorably dim, then fade away. Indeed, despite all the new knowledge about how the brain works--or perhaps even because of it--medical researchers seem as far from understanding what causes Alzheimer's as they have ever been...
...silencing, genes that ordinarily monitor replicating DNA for chemical errors. The malignant cells quickly become resistant to the poisons physicians prescribe to kill them. They also acquire the disturbing ability to stimulate the formation of nutrient-bearing blood vessels, thus spurring their own growth. Even if malignant cells grow rather slowly, they grow inexorably, eventually forming a deadly mass that invades surrounding tissue and spreads, or metastasizes, to far-flung locations...
...other hand, scientists hypothesize, aging takes place at the cellular level, and if cells did not grow old, biological aging might be slowed. But what drives the process? Why do some cells accumulate dysfunction with time? And can that dysfunction be prevented or slowed? Before those questions can be answered, cautions Baylor professor Olivia Pereira-Smith, who researches the genetics of aging, "we have to find the genes first...