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Hellman did have one thing right: Mahoney is Irish and proud of it. In 1991 she spent 10 months on the old sod, sipping Guinness in drafty pubs and listening to people who often sound as if they had just strolled in from a Brian Friel play. Steeling herself for the unknown, Mahoney nervously checks out a lesbians-only night at a seedy Dublin bar. (Asked if she's gay, she lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked...
Ljuba Mikerevic, 34, walks from a bunker built of old cartridge boxes packed with dirt and covered with logs and sod in the middle of the Serb lines to his home every four days. It is about two miles down the steep hill past two military checkpoints, a dozen gutted homes and a file of soldiers walking in the other direction. Mikerevic is lean, with a dark mustache and hair that is turning prematurely gray. His rifle swings easily from his shoulder. At home his wife and two young girls, ages six and three, are waiting in the cramped apartment...
Kunkel suggested that the extreme sensitivity and fragility of neurons to their environments could also cause increased susceptibility to low levels of SOD...
Fridovich said he anticipates that further experiments with the altered SOD will find the protein less active, and that accumulation of damage to cells caused by superoxides not eliminated by SOD could eventually cause the death of many cells...
...SOD recently made headlines when studies linked it to aging. Scientists were able to prolong the lives of fruit flies and nematodes by increasing levels of the enzyme in experimental subjects of both species