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...also believe that Manny was in some ways simpatico to Time, even or especially in its early maturity. Both he and the Luce publication favored wordplay, luscious similes, extreme verbal concision (e.g., a string of adjectives without an "and" before the last one), abrupt shifts of tone, with gags that interrupted the serious analysis - all in the aid of entertaining as well as enlightening or pushing an agenda, and in recognition that getting people to read a magazine required a measure of variety-showmanship. Manny's earlier writing had many of these qualities (as well as many others that Time...
...more molecular side, newer genetic and biochemical tests for age are not proving as robust as scientists had hoped. The most exciting method, in which researchers measure the length of telomeres, or the string of DNA at the ends of chromosomes, has proven too unreliable. Just a few years ago, genetic experts had thought that aging cells had shorter telomeres, but it turns out that these bits of DNA can get snipped off even in relatively young cells. "We all age at different rates at the molecular level," says Sinclair...
...last September, Nastia Liukin's father handed her a Post-it note. On it were a string of letters - D, D, E, D, D, E, spelling out a cryptic code that the 18-year old Texan couldn't figure out at first...
Hutz became aware of his own extended gypsy family in rural Ukraine as a teenager, and it's an identity he embraces. In the 2006 documentary Pied Piper of Hutzovina he embarks on a musical pilgrimage through Roma camps in the Carpathians to Siberia to meet his hero, seven-string guitarist Sasha Kolpakov. For Hutz, his Roma heritage is more than just hobby geneaology. "When you talk to gypsyologists they will always try to downplay the romantic side of the stereotype," he says, preparing backstage for a show at the Brixton Academy. "But even if you downplay it, it will...
...teammates - Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Chellsie Memmel, Samantha Peszek and Bridget Sloan - ended up with a perfectly respectable silver, 2.375 points behind home-town favorite China. But it wasn't so much that the squad had earned the silver as they had squandered the gold after a string of unusual errors. "A gold medal would have been a little better," said Liukin...