Word: shays
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...normal cells with a virus that had been genetically engineered to switch telomerase on. In every case the cells' telomeres lengthened instead of shortening, while the cells stayed healthy and continued to divide. "When we submitted the paper, we were at 20 generations past the usual limit," says Jerry Shay, a cell biologist at Southwestern. "Now we're at 40, with no end in sight...
That bashed artifact bounces repeatedly in the rest of Underworld, eventually coming to rest in the possession of Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm in Phoenix, Ariz., who pays $34,500 to a New Jersey memorabilia dealer named Marvin Lundy for the Thomson souvenir. Why buy something that even the seller cannot authoritatively trace back to Bobby Thomson's bat? (DeLillo's readers know about Cotter Martin and can make the connection, but his characters can't.) Why, especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home...
...important to get other women's experience and have inspiring, intelligent and spunky women role models in the political field," said Tamar P. Shay...
...Puritanism the last ale to be found at any counter comes at two o'clock ante meridian--and alas, this is only possible at The Crimson Sports Grille and The Spaghetti Club, two establishments known neither for their good beer nor their puritanical behavior. The quainter of our pubs--Shay's, The Cellar, Grendel's and, for our yuppier compatriots, Grafton Street--all shut their taps at one in the morning...
...whether you are strolling out of Shay's or stumbling out of the Grille, you are in search of your better half: your better slice...