Word: robert
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...dramatic new result traces back to a breakthrough in 1983, when the Whitehead's Robert Weinberg and colleagues showed that mouse cells would become cancerous when spiked with two altered genes. But when they tried such alterations on human cells, they didn't work. Since then, scientists have learned that mouse cells differ from human cells in an important respect: they have higher levels of an enzyme called telomerase. That enzyme keeps caplike structures called telomeres on the ends of chromosomes from getting shorter with each round of cell division. Such shortening is part of a cell's aging process...
...family carried it on. Nancy is the foundation's CEO, brother Robert is president, and three DeMoss children are directors. Nancy plays host at evangelizing dinners for the rich and powerful at her houses in Florida and Manhattan (one invitee estimated the events' cost at $80,000 each). Privately, she contributed $70,000 to Newt Gingrich's political-action committee, GOPAC. A daughter, Deborah, worked for Senator Jesse Helms as a Foreign Relations Committee aide, specializing in the right-wing Latin American parties Helms favored in the 1980s. (She has since left the foundation board.) Mark, a board member, worked...
...well-deserved reputation as the thinking person's diva. Flanigan sings two sharply contrasting parts in Central Park--a frustrated divorce in The Festival of Regrets (book by Wasserstein, music by Deborah Drattell) and a desperate bag lady in The Food of Love (book by McNally, music by Robert Beaser)--and brings them both off with staggering assurance...
...champions: the U.S. and China. If the Chinese had been allowed to share in the victory parade, and the two teams had been photographed with the Cup between them, more could have been done for U.S.-China relations in one day than has been accomplished in years of diplomacy. ROBERT CROSS Calgary, Alta...
...have risen twice as fast, from $798 billion to $975 billion. In March consumers repaid some 15% of their outstanding balances, a 10-year record, according to Moody's Investors Service. "Since they can't get it at the front end, they get it at the back end," says Robert McKinley, CEO of CardWeb.com "It's a fee frenzy, and a backlash may be brewing...