Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the future of affirmative action programs remains in question, Cheng says she thinks opposition among Asian-Americans is on the rise...
...dish, they felt, it meant that somewhere in the nanoviscera of each cell there was an actuarial hourglass that gave it only so much time to live and no more. If the clock could be found--and, more important, reset--both the cells and the larger corpus that gave rise to them might be made immortal. Of course, hypothesizing the existence of such a cellular timekeeper was one thing; finding it and manipulating it were something else again. In the years since, senescence scientists have taken two approaches to achieving this goal...
...moment telomerase was discovered," says Hayflick, "it was clear that for immortal cells at least, this was a way to circumvent the inevitability of aging and dying." Telomerase has now been found in the precursor cells that give rise to human eggs, in the stem cells that give rise to blood cells and in up to 95% of cancer cells...
...Lung cancers still account for 30% of all cancer deaths, but in those demographic groups that cut back sharply--male Caucasians, for example--lung-cancer death rates have dropped impressively (6.7%). Conversely, a lot of women took up smoking over the same period, which may account for the rise in lung-cancer rates among older women over the past five years...
...said he believed the sputtering Crimson offense will finally rise to the occasion. Lewis confidently predicted Harvard will win by a score of 29-28 on a two-point conversion with no time left...