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Myhram previously served as an environmentalchair for his district in southwestern Vermont,and now spends his free time restoring his 1930sFords and directing plays
Surviving Columbus was produced to commemorate the quincentennial of European presence in America, and traces the often-tumultuous history of the Pueblo Indians in the southwestern United States...
...next total eclipse will cross Europe and southwestern Asia on Aug. 11, 1999 and will be the last of the 20th century...
Last week a pair of raccoon hunters led federal agents to that truck, mired to its axles in soggy woods near Rudolph's trailer in Murphy, a hamlet tucked into the southwestern corner of North Carolina. By the weekend, the FBI had enough evidence to charge Rudolph with the bombing and offer a $100,000 reward. That evidence, investigators say, includes explosives residue in the truck and in a storage shed Rudolph had rented, fibers from a blond wig like the one a witness had seen a man remove as he ran from the bombing scene, and a folding shovel...
Fast-forward to last summer, when three different groups of researchers cloned a gene that makes it possible to reactivate telomerase in human-tissue samples. The race was on to see who could make cells live longer than they normally do. Researchers from Geron and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas infected normal cells with a virus that had been genetically engineered to switch telomerase on. In every case the cells' telomeres lengthened instead of shortening, while the cells stayed healthy and continued to divide. "When we submitted the paper, we were at 20 generations past...