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...years scientists have puzzled over the rapid disappearance of frogs around the world. Last week a team of researchers from Oregon State University offered a possible explanation: the thinning of the ozone layer. The researchers argue that increased ultraviolet B radiation may be killing amphibian eggs before they hatch into tadpoles...
...second smallest increase in the past 18 years; Greenspan himself predicts only 3% this year. Unit labor costs, a prime indicator of future price increases, are going down. Critics think Greenspan is either pursuing a wildly unrealistic goal of zero inflation or following a simplistic syllogism: as a rule, rapid rises in output eventually bring inflation; production grew at an annual rate of 5.9% at the end of 1993; therefore inflation threatens...
...organizers want to raise the money as swiftly as possible and hope that the rapid fund-raising will garner media attention...
...last band Christina Billotte played in was the slightly slower, more complicated Autoclave, whose other guitarist, Mary Timony, is now headed for deserved superstardom in her Boston-based band Helium. The various parts of Autoclave's sound--the instrumental overlaps, the soulfulness, the rapid riff-changing--are now split up among the bands its ex-members have formed: Helium songs are slow and cathartic Slant 6 song are speedy and compact, and Autoclave bassist Nikki Chapman's Rastro! is noisier than either other band. It's fair to say (and it's not a diss on Helium) that Christina Billotte...
Cyclin E is a protein directly involved in the regulation of cell proliferation. It is necessary in order for cells to divide, and is crucial to the rapid division of tumor cells...