Word: paces
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...Michael Roizen, chairman of critical care at the University of Chicago and author of RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be? (HarperCollins), echoes the same theme. "We really can slow the pace of aging--and even reverse it," he writes. Roizen shows how our choices affect the quality of our old age. "Eating that hamburger will make you older tomorrow than if you ate that salad today. And you will be younger tomorrow if you exercise today." Some suggestions are bromide-simple: wear a seat belt, take an aspirin a day, floss your teeth daily. Others are more...
...pounds, sophomore Brad Soltis' 18-9 victory set the pace for the Crimson, starting a streak in which Harvard won five of six matched and take a 19-6 lead. Sophomore Kevin El-Hayek posted a 6-5 victory at 125 pounds. At 141 pounds, DeNunzio proved the highlight of the match with a pin in just 1:08. Friedman grappled his way to a 7-5 win while Killar overtook his opponent...
...would take some time. Unlike the atom bomb or the space race, there was no Hitler or Khrushchev who threatened to get there first. Without such external dangers forcing them to pull out all the stops, federally funded genome-project scientists figured they could move at their own pace; they would finish up in 2005 or thereabouts...
...genome project, critics carp privately, has been shockingly mismanaged and is sorely lacking in vision. Private efforts, counter some in the public project, are pirate operations that seek to lock critical segments of God's genomic handiwork behind a barricade of patents. Beyond that, they say, speeding up the pace of discovery could lead to slapdash, incomplete results. "If this is the book of life," sniffs Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, in Bethesda, Md., and one of the leaders of the federal Human Genome Project, "we should not be satisfied with a lot of mistakes...
...critics of gene therapy dismayed by what seems to be the slow pace of progress, Anderson urges patience. "People don't understand that the development of an ordinary drug from time of concept to product is 10 years," he says. "We're talking about a revolutionary approach to therapy, and we're only eight years into...