Word: masking
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Fancy procedures like Botox, face lifts, and microdermabrasion are among the many tricks that can give aging skin a mask of youth. But Harvard Medical School researchers may have found a gene that can actually hold back the clock. If the quantity of a protein that regulates gene expression and fixes damaged cells is increased, genes may be less likely to deteriorate, according to the study. Cells that remain in better condition for longer age more slowly, theoretically allowing organisms to remain younger longer. “People may have an extended lifespan,” said Raul Mostoslavsky...
...manhood in all its naked glory. That did not stop him from seeing her through three abortions and being, in his alarming words, "very violent with her for two days with my hand," but it does bring home how women could see something redeeming and inchoate beneath the mask of a curmudgeon who seemed determined to play Evelyn Waugh in brownface...
...make you think. For some, reading “Outliers” may feel like a personal attack on their pride in their own achievements. For others, it may be a vindication of their belief that the American Dream was never really more than a myth created to mask structural inequalities in our country. Perhaps the problem is that the “self-made man” has become a Super Myth, an idea so deeply carved into our national identity and cultural consciousness that we refuse to believe that some people will get lucky and some people won?...
...these... dinosaurs in this... park!” (You fill in the blanks.)The show was technically brilliant, as well, and action scenes reflected the production’s thoughtfulness, variety, and limited budget. The Dilophosaur “spitter” wore a purple bodysuit and no mask as he shot silly string through a contraption in his hand. The Velociraptors were eerie, with long tails and elongated masks that opened and closed with the jaws of the wearer. The Tyrannosaurus was by far the most intricate—and most impressive—costume; two people stood under...
...Japan is benefiting because of what it isn't. The world's renewed love affair with the nation has blossomed just as many nations are growing wary of the rising influence of Asia's other superpower: China. Unlike Japan, China has done little to mask its global natural-resources grab. As a result, Japan outranked China in a June survey of soft-power effectiveness in six countries by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Far from China eclipsing Japan, as many once thought, the Middle Kingdom's emergence has actually reawakened international admiration of its neighbor. "There's a strong...