Word: latches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roses proposes that amyloid has an accomplice: a blood protein called ApoE. Its main function seems to be transporting cholesterol, but according to Roses, ApoE can also latch on to amyloid and cart it into brain cells. How often that happens may depend on what type of ApoE a person has, which in turn depends on the genes that direct the making of ApoE. Those genes come in at least three varieties -- dubbed E2, E3 and E4 -- and everyone has two of the genes, one from each parent...
...real source of Harvard's race relations problem is the administration. By wasting money on race relations offices and their staffs, the University provides a lightning rod for eggheads to latch onto, Then, instead of acting as genuine representatives, the egghead divert their ostensibly cultural organizations from their real purposes...
Fernandez told an audience of about 175 that many city schools have large numbers of students on public assistance, latch key kids and immigrants who speak a variety of languages and have different educational backgrounds and needs...
Every time a slapdash imitation of something Western goes wrong, the Slavophiles latch on to it as evidence of the danger posed by alien ideas. In their view, the Bolshevik Revolution exactly fits this category. The current fashion for wearing czarist-era uniforms and holding balls for descendants of the old nobility reflects an intense nostalgia for a Russia long gone, a monarchist age that appears as full of sunlight and promise for the Slavophiles as it was dark and despairing for the communists. The traditionalists take inspiration from prerevolutionary conservatives like Pyotr Stolypin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Czar...
ABOUT 40% OF AMERICANS DRINK WINE at least occasionally. Any of them who latch onto WINE SNOBBERY (Simon & Schuster; $20) will have their eyebrows raised by this self-styled expose of what's behind -- and what sometimes goes into -- the noble beverage. In remorseless detail, British oenophile Andrew Barr explains how France's supposedly rigid appellation laws protect mediocrity more than excellence, why cheap champagne is often better than top brands costing upwards of $40, and how producers have got away with murder -- literally -- by dosing their wines with dangerous additives. Like most Savonarolas, Barr could lighten up a little...