Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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, and since cancer cells keep dividing forever, the Whitehead group reasoned that making human cells more mouselike might also make them cancerous...
People who want to keep the penny are either coin collectors, somehow related to the zinc industry (pennies are 97.5% zinc) or paranoid that stores will raise prices if we start rounding to the nearest nickel. Yet rounding is in force on military bases and in some foreign countries. Three and four get rounded to five; one and two get rounded to zero. Even Einstein would be hard-pressed to defeat that system. You round at the end, not item by item, and you wouldn't round at all if paying by check or credit card. Sure, Dunkin' Donuts could...
...whether America's been yearning for a blueberry laptop built of bulletproof polycarbonate plastic (to make it, Ive explains, "rugged, robust, structural") and co-molded rubber (to make it "compliant, yielding, human"). And a little foldout handle. And a sleep light that throbs like a heartbeat. And a sleek, round charger whose cord rolls up like...
...couch or a video-games console? A couch is nice to sit on, but a console is "a man magnet," she decided. "No male can resist the challenge." I knew what she meant. For mindless fun, you can't beat a console evening. Invite your friends over, gather round the TV, crack open a six-pack and get down to the serious business of knocking the stuffing out of them. It does wonders for your social life...
...Preceptors are divided into groups of three who submit essays to a second round of reading," Cooper said...