Word: prolongers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queens a slot on the schedule after COLUMBIA TRISTAR surrendered a share. NewsRadio, a so-so sitcom, was renewed for a fourth season after NBC, considered the most aggressive network, acquired profit participation from the producer, BRILLSTEIN-GREY, which most likely went for the deal in order to prolong the show's life and make it eligible for the big money of syndication. "Much better to partner with a network and own 50% of $350 million," observed an executive. ABC took another tack, forcing three producers to accept longer contracts and smaller licensing fees in exchange for spaces...
...Queens" a slot on the schedule after Columbia Tristar surrendered a share. "NewsRadio," a so-so sitcom, was renewed for a fourth season after NBC, considered the most aggressive network, acquired profit participation from the producer, Brillstein-Grey, which most likely went for the deal in order to prolong the show's life and make it eligible for the big money of syndication. "Much better to partner with a network and own 50 percent of $350 million," observed an executive. ABC took another tack, forcing three producers to accept longer contracts and smaller licensing fees in exchange for space...
...cancel your life-insurance policy just yet. While the new work suggests a way to prolong life, scientists are a long way from making it a reality--and it may be too risky to be useful. The study proves something that researchers already suspected: each of the 1 trillion cells in the human body contains its own biological clock, which tells the cell when to stop growing and start dying. It might be possible to stop that clock. But would it be prudent? Many biologists think the cell's planned obsolescence is an all-important safeguard against the development...
...longer and increasing even a single human life-span. Doctors are already familiar with cells that live indefinitely: they're called cancer cells. Apparently one reason tumors expand aggressively is that their cells are full of telomerase. So, unless scientists carefully control cell division, activating human telomerase may not prolong life but just create cancers...
Some stars age gracefully. Others use every means in their power to prolong youth by focusing on its companions: beauty and desirability. Still others fade out of sight. But JON VOIGHT has chosen a fourth route. He has embraced his outer homeliness. Voight, 58, has come a long way since he played Rolf in Broadway's original Sound of Music, or even since his Oscar-winning turn as the archetypal '70s-sensitive guy in Coming Home. In Anaconda, Heat and U-Turn, Voight has proved he can be as scrofulous and evil as the next bad guy. But it takes...