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British researchers have studied the telomeres of Dolly and two other cloned sheep and found that they are shorter than those of similar-age sheep conceived normally. Dolly, cloned from a six-year-old animal, had the smallest telomeres of all--barely 80% of the proper length. The other two sheep, cloned from embryos, were better off but still came up short...
...observer once joked -- a sheep in lamb's clothing. The three-year-old Finn Dorset ewe, it turns out, may be susceptible to premature aging. Researchers have determined that chromosome tips, known as telomeres, which regulate the lifespan of cells by preventing their genetic code from fraying, are shorter than expected in Dolly. Researchers are not sure whether the "older DNA" is the result of the age of the animal from which Dolly was cloned or the result of the amount of time the Dolly embryo spent in culture before being implanted...
Another concession had to be made because the University required that the new building be no higher than those which surround it--leaving Maxwell-Dworkin's fourth floor about two feet shorter than those below...
...Capsule review] "It might have been entertaining if it were better acted, with better sets, better special effects, and an hour shorter...
...Also, secretaries offices, unlike dorm rooms, were and are configured ergonomically. Before computers became office fixtures, secretaries had both a typing table and a writing desk, the former shorter than the latter so that typing didn t involve the praying mantis posture that Harvard desks necessitate. The Sisyphean struggle of the scrivener Nipper in Herman Melville s "Bartleby the Scrivener"-first tilting his writing table to angle of the "steep roof of a Dutch house" to ease his back, then lowering the table "to his waistbands" and stooping over when it stopped the circulation in his arms, then again tilting...