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That may explain why the Kremlin is saying foreign specialists will be consulted. One of them, Russian officials say, will be Houston's renowned Dr. Michael DeBakey, 88, who helped train Akchurin. Two German cardiologists will also assist. Many more specialists will be in Moscow later this month for an international conference on cardiovascular problems...
...engine remain exceedingly dubious. "I consider Rosen Motors to be a very small part of the overall flywheel effort," says Joe Beno, program manager for the electric-vehicle program at the University of Texas at Austin, whose group will put a flywheel motor in a commercial bus in Houston next year. Kevin M. Myles, director of the electrochemical technology program at Argonne National Laboratory, who has done extensive work with alternative-fuel vehicles, doesn't think the Rosens have addressed the safety problems inherent in flywheels. A wheel operating at such a high velocity can explode if knocked off-line...
...rate down. Already doctors have learned how to keep the disease at bay for months, and sometimes even to produce complete remissions that may last for years. "We're running a marathon, not a sprint," observes Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, a pediatric oncologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "What's important is not how fast we run the first two miles but when we cross the finish line...
...aging of cells, or senescence, is driven by hostile elements in the environment or is dictated by genes. Nowadays there is little doubt that both elements are at play. "You have genetics overlaid by environmental factors," says Dr. James Smith, co-chairman of the Huffington Center on Aging at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine. "There's something going on inside the human body to determine a maximum possible life-span of 115 to 120 years. There's a limit--but we have no idea what defines...
Pittsburgh--you failed to sell out a playoff game. Houston--I'm still bitter about those horizontally-striped uniforms from the eighties. Seattle--you beat the Yankees too much. Milwaukee--you're just plain pathetic...