Word: lose
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...human body ages, it loses bone. Individual cells lose something equally vital. Every time one divides, it sheds tiny snippets of DNA known as telomeres, which serve as protective caps on the ends of chromosomes. After perhaps a hundred divisions, a cell's telomeres become so truncated that its chromosomes--site of the cell's genes--begin to fray, rather like shoelaces that have lost their plastic tips. Eventually, such aged cells die--unless, like "immortal" cancer cells, they produce telomerase, an enzyme that protects and even rebuilds telomeres. Scientists have long dreamed of drugs that would inhibit the immortalizing...
...YORK: Never mind that they contribute over $2 billion a year to the U.S. economy. Non-citizen immigrants will have their food stamps taken away from them starting Monday ? forcing the 1 million who currently use them to go hungry, while many millions more lose their safety net. As last year's federal welfare reform starts to bite, TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera says that "immigrants are basically being told, 'It's okay for you to be here and work, but don't expect to be treated on an equitable level if you are going through hard times...
...Daily) ... Just for a moment, the Mir crew lost their main oxygen generator, and "couldn't find it anywhere," according to mission control (Reuters) ... Big Tobacco may save money in State settlements (TIME Daily) ... Two thousand people march in New York to protest police brutality ... (Reuters) ... Non-citizen immigrants lose their food stamps Monday (TIME Daily) ... The Kennedy name loses its luster in Massachusetts as Joe drops out of the governor's race (TIME Daily) ... The British Government invite Sinn Fein to take part in peace talks (TIME Daily) ... and an Encephalitis alert shuts down parts of Disney World (TIME...
...tested--at its own expense. Two years ago, it started charging modest application fees that cover about a third of its $1.2 million testing budget. Says Kenneth Burrell of the A.D.A.'s Council on Scientific Affairs: "The A.D.A. seal is viewed very positively, and we didn't want to lose that...
...severe case of the stupes. The creatures keep Susan alive (inexplicable unless she is meant to be mated with the king bug), and they stop evolving into humans (so we never, alas, see the final stage of a really uggy bug-man). Horror-film heroines are typically doomed to lose their wits halfway through the picture. This time it happened to the director...