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...room and told me, mostly as an interesting factoid, that she had just passed out. She had been trying to get something out from under the leg of the bed, and 20 minutes later, she woke up wondering what she was doing lying on the floor--the strain of lifting the bed had been too much for her back, which she had injured earlier while rowing crew. Strangely, I had been sitting in the common room and hadn't even noticed a thud. Neither had our other roommate, working in her room with the door closed less than 10 feet...
Even with such compliance, however, 500,000 Hutu refugees will put a strain on the largely Tutsi Rwandan government. Its housing policy is quite clear: anyone occupying someone else's home is required to leave within 15 days of the owner's arrival. But most of those occupying others' houses are Tutsi who, like Kabagare, have nowhere else to go. The only solution is to build new homes, and the government is appealing to the international community, including the U.S., to send humanitarian aid instead of the 12,000 troops originally committed to rescue the Hutu in Zaire. Several hundred...
...answer may well be yes. Boosted by the campaigns, milk sales have increased for the first time in decades, up .9% over last year. That's not enough to strain the dairy herd, and milk's not going to be replacing Chardonnay at Hollywood parties. But for a product that's been in a 30-year funk, it's not a bad start to a comeback...
...mystery indeed is solved, the benefits could be enormous. Schellenberg suspects that the same helicase deficit that accelerates senescence in Werner's sufferers might, in a more measured form, cause aging in others. To prove this, he will create a strain of mouse that carries a mutant helicase gene so that he can learn how the enzyme works, and more important, how it can be manipulated. Depending upon what Schellenberg learns from these mice, it might be possible to sidestep genetics and simply use helicase boosters to slow aging in both Werner's patients and healthy people...
Warburg Professor of Economics Zvi Griliches said he believes the increase in the number of older faculty will create a fiscal strain on the ability of departments to recruit new junior faculty...