Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place Macarena). The book is full of realistic dietary tricks that add up to many forgone calories. For example, "beware of gourmet cappuccinos and mochaccinos made with full-fat milk." Ask for skim milk instead, and you'll never notice the difference. And put fruits and veggies at eye level in your refrigerator so they're the first things...
...soon as he moves on, the people left behind disperse, "as if the real purpose of the group had now been fulfilled...and there was no longer any compelling reason to remain together." (Now that's Washington.) At another party, Sheffield becomes smitten with Gretchen, a radiant, low-level East Wing staff member who lives with a rising presidential speechwriter named Ben. After Gretchen and the President begin an affair, her face time surpasses Ben's, which sets Tarloff to brooding on the intersection of love and power. If the desire for face time can turn movie stars, corporate barracudas...
Susan Shefte, the administrative director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute (RPPI), is the fourth high-level Radcliffe official to depart from the college in the last six months-just days after Radcliffe Director of Communications Lyn Chamberlin cleaned out her desk...
This means gene therapy cannot now be used to treat, for example, diabetics. If they were provided with a normal insulin gene that was always turned on, their insulin level would soon be dangerously high. "But the mechanism we have in mind," Wilson says, "will be like a genetic rheostat. The gene will not work until you take a pill, and the more pills you take, the more the gene will be expressed--and if you want to cut off the supply, you simply stop taking the pill...
Over the next two years this procedure was repeated a dozen or so times on the little patients. For Ashi it went on until the level of ADA in her bloodstream was 25% of normal, more than enough to protect her. As a precaution mandated by the FDA, she continued to receive weekly doses of PEG-ADA during her gene treatments...