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...roadster is back. After years of declining sales, and against the Boomer vanguard of minivans and sport utilities, automakers such as Jaguar and Porsche have rediscovered and updated a vintage class of sports cars that have virtually no reason for being except the sheer wind-in-your-face joy of motoring...
...problem facing any scientist trying to find a genetic lever on the aging process is the sheer number of genes involved. Geneticist George Martin at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was involved in the discovery of the Werner's gene, believes that even if only a few master-clock genes directly guide aging in humans, up to 7,000 more might be peripherally involved. Re-engineering even one of these is an exquisitely complex process. Re-engineering all 7,000 would be impossible...
...would be easy to blame the reporter, but for the sheer ignorance behind sending the thing in, I can credit no one but myself. I had aimlessly wandered into a swamp of mutual jealousy between magazines and newspapers for which nothing at the Office of Career Services could have prepared me. I had no idea that many newspaper reporters go out of their way to make magazines look trivial, and magazine copy-editors clip the "Corrections" columns from the papers and send them to their friends for fun. It had never occurred to me that by tossing words into...
...wasn't the most stellar evening in HRO's history, it was by no means a black mark, either. Let's be thankful for the sheer potential of the orchestra, and keep our fingers crossed for a more appealing program next time out: perhaps something for the Brahms centenary next year? He did write a Double Concerto, after...
Steele, a carpenter, wants to do for government what he does for homes: renovate. He entered politics out of "sheer aggravation" over debt and taxes, and has strong opinions about the country's "moral crisis." He is "unalterably pro-life" and says he'd help return America to a time when abortion, drugs and alcohol abuse were not major societal ills. But Steele, 37, will have a hard time defeating incumbent Richard Neal, who hammered his last opponent...