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...experiment at Cornell's Weill Medical College, though, may hint at a real baldness cure. The key is a gene known as SHH. In embryos SHH controls brain development, but in mature animals--including humans--it governs natural on-off cycles of hair growth. And sure enough, when scientists inserted SHH into mouse hair follicles (using a common cold virus as their splicing tool), the dozing follicles woke up and performed...
...midst of everything I am involved in, everything I care about, I need space, just a little space of silence around me every once in a while. I need to remember that there are things more important than classwork, more important than The Harvard Crimson (shh!), even more important than spending time with my friends. I have to spend time with myself...
...power, in the far American right. The cold war thawed out after 40 years and left its paladins standing with wet socks in the puddle. "And now what shall become of us, without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution." The words of the poet Constantine Cavafy -- shh! a Greek homosexual! -- apply quite well to the right's dilemma...
...Shh, " he whispered in her hair, "before I throw you out the window...
...Shh. . . they subsidize, switch and cheat a bit, that...