Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's quite a difference, however, between getting a few cells to live longer and increasing even a single human life-span. Doctors are already familiar with cells that live indefinitely: they're called cancer cells. Apparently one reason tumors expand aggressively is that their cells are full of telomerase. So, unless scientists carefully control cell division, activating human telomerase may not prolong life but just create cancers...
...Palca last week. "God intended for man to become one with God. Cloning...is the first serious step in becoming one with God." In a later interview on CNN, Seed elaborated: "Man," he said, "will develop the technology and the science and the capability to have an indefinite life span...
While Chemistry 5/7 teaches general chemistry over the time span of two semesters, Chemistry 10: "Foundations of Chemistry" takes up only one semester...
...point is not that Tarantino really works for the music industry, but that the way in which he's selling us his interests is no longer interesting. His vividly imagined, detailed criminal underworld, with a language all its own, was what helped hold together the short-attention-span oddities of his first two endeavors. Now, shocking devices foisted upon this movie's stultifyingly paced plot and Grier's well-intentioned yet boring performance seem instantly tired. At one point, the "sudden shoot" gimmick--witness Tim Roth's character in Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction's poor victim of Vincent Vega...
...advisory, which warned the community of the danger, noted that the robberies took place in the 10-day span between...