Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that awaits him. As was widely reported, due to a darkly comic technical snafu, the Associated Press prematurely announced Hope's death on its web site. Some members of Congress got wind of this and rushed to extol his virtues for the sake of the Congressional Record and C-SPAN audiences everywhere...
BUILDING BRIDGES For Senate majority leader Trent Lott's hometown: a new, eight-lane span to replace an old drawbridge over the Pascagoula River. $38 million...
...book is also a departure from She's Come Undone, an offbeat story of an overweight girl named Dolores. Ambitious and sprawling, I Know This Much Is True is a monster of a tale about twin brothers, one schizophrenic and one healthy, that covers a Forrest Gump-like time span and touches on issues ranging from Native American rights to child pornography. Lamb's ending is a triumph of simple beauty; unfortunately, many readers simply will not get that...
...first glance, the report in the current issue of Nature Genetics seems to offer nothing but trouble, especially for fruit growers and homemakers. A team of Canadian scientists put a human gene in fruit flies and managed to increase the pests' life-span by 40%. Why would anyone want to do that...
...genetics of aging, that's why. Fruit flies are some of scientists' favorite subjects for genetic research. In this case, copies of a gene known to rid human cells of the damaging products of metabolism were inserted into the cells that control fruit-fly movement. Result: the life-span of the flies (normally about 80 days) was extended by as much as a month. All this, the researchers say, suggests "a possible strategy" for reducing the ravages of aging in other species-- including humans...