Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...price, though, buys you a nice warranty that offers on-site or drop-in service...
...Even though it occurred late at night on a holiday weekend, preliminary reports suggest that millions upon millions tuned in and logged on to follow the shocking tragedy as it unfolded. Page views of CNN's web site, for instance, quadrupled on Saturday night, while the network?s cable channel got an unusually high 7.6 rating at the midnight hour ? the moment news of Diana's death began to seep through. To put that in context, events such as the World Trade Center bombing or the Los Angeles quake barely registered a 3 rating. "My sense is it's just...
...body ages, it loses bone. Individual cells lose something equally vital. Every time one divides, it sheds tiny snippets of DNA known as telomeres, which serve as protective caps on the ends of chromosomes. After perhaps a hundred divisions, a cell's telomeres become so truncated that its chromosomes--site of the cell's genes--begin to fray, rather like shoelaces that have lost their plastic tips. Eventually, such aged cells die--unless, like "immortal" cancer cells, they produce telomerase, an enzyme that protects and even rebuilds telomeres. Scientists have long dreamed of drugs that would inhibit the immortalizing enzyme...
...oldest commercial nuclear plant will close Friday, when operators at Michigan's Big Rock reactor lower the damper rods for the last time. Now comes the hard part: A five-year project to safely dismantle the reactor and dispose of some 442 bundles of spent uranium fuel at the site...
WHAT'S MY LYME? Doctors have isolated an antibody in spinal fluid that allows them to quickly detect if Lyme bacteria have spread from the site of the bite to the nervous system. Treated early, Lyme disease is easy to cure...