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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...
...always go wrong for him. In his earlier days he obtained important convictions against former Justice Department official Webster Hubbell and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker, as well as McDougal and her deceased husband, Jim. But the fact that Starr refused to relent, on even the smallest points, "will make him go away with a reputation that is somewhat less shiny than when he began," says Novak. His critics will now be watching more closely than ever to see how he decides to proceed with the last major business before him: yet another set of Hubbell prosecutions, this time...
Nursing is by the far the smallest of the four schools with only 80 students in each year. But nursing students have the highest average starting salary of the four schools...
...fact, she has staked her professional reputation on it. Kearns, 60, is superintendent of Newcomb Central School, serving Newcomb, N.Y., (pop. 550) on Route 28N in Adirondack State Park. Her public school is the smallest in New York, with 69 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade. The two-story brick schoolhouse was built for 400 children in 1948, when a titanium and magnetite mine was operating nearby. After the mine closed about a decade ago, the student body dwindled, and the state pressured the town to shut the school...
Radcliffe Vice President for College RelationsBonnie R. Clendenning noted the new Institute willnot be Harvard's smallest division...