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...life expectancy (the number of years you can expect to live before being claimed by illness or accident) is not life-span (the maximum age to which the perfectly maintained, disease-free body could remain alive before it simply wore out and broke down). All the gains in length of life have been achieved by treating diseases that used to kill us in youth or, at best, in what we now consider our middle years--and are thus gains in life expectancy. Meanwhile, life-span has remained fixed at a hard ceiling of about 125 years...
...with the priming dose of viral DNA; that shock seems to enhance the DNA's ability to trigger a response. And they are even experimenting with firing the DNA directly into immune-system cells at high pressure with so-called gene guns to make sure the nucleic acids have maximum impact...
Since Chelsea club rules prohibit players from going out drinking within a 48-hour period before a match, Terry and Morris were each fined two weeks' wages - the maximum permitted in a standard player contract. This was not the first time the players had violated club rules: Terry and Morris were fined after a drinking spree near Heathrow Airport on Sept. 12, during which they were accused of offending American tourists stranded in the wake of the previous day's terrorist attacks. In the program notes for a game after last Wednesday's court hearing, Chelsea chairman Ken Bates encouraged...
...convicted of violating Trombly’s constitutional rights, Byrne faces a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine...
...convicted of violating Trombly’s constitutional rights, Byrne faces a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Each of the four witness tampering counts carries a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine as well...