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...Benzer is searching through our genes for a sort of clock of clocks that tells us where we are in the sweep from the cradle to the grave and decides how fast we age. Recently he discovered a mutant fruit fly that lives more than 100 days, about one-third longer than the rest of the madding crowd in a fly bottle. What makes the difference is a single gene, which Benzer calls Methuselah...
...have to be extremely careful as they increase the amount of carbos and dramatically cut back on fats. For most people, this is too much of a metabolic swing, and weight regain is all too common. The more moderate diets of Sears and the Hellers--cutting carbohydrates by about one-third and eating moderate amounts of fat, preferably monosaturated ones like olive oil--are more gentle to the system...
...also a Crimson editor, "Our offer was equal in, equal out." Jones and Melissa Mueller '00, the other Cabot co-chair, brought the proposal back to their House masters and senior tutor, and, Jones claims, with an understanding that Currier and PfoHo "couldn't guarantee to put in one-third of the effort." Because of the previous year's problems with overindulgence of alcohol at both the fall and spring Cabot formals, as well as the financial situation, the Cabot powers-that-be decided to remove themselves from this year's quad Formal and plan their own private event...
Ryutaro Hashimoto's remarks in an hour-long speech, on topics ranging from Japanese-American relations to the inner workings of Japanese holding companies, were entirely in Japanese. One-third of the audience donned small headsets to hear an English translation...
...disbanding of the Catholic-dominated German Center Party and the defining of any Catholic criticism of Nazi political acts as "foreign interference." The 1933 concordat, claims Cornwell, "imposed a moral duty on Catholics to obey the Nazi rulers" and so neutered Germany's "last democratic focus." (Catholics made up one-third of the German population.) Pacelli, meanwhile, commenced his long silence on Jewish persecution...