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...hall mark of this mysterious generation, OK touts itself in small letters as "a carbonated 'beverage,'" with the last word in quotes--the hipsters who make "OK," one assumes, are too cool to use that technical word with a straight face. The slogan completes the pitch--no hi-strung shrill jingos here--"Everything is going...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DART BOARD | 5/27/1994 | See Source »

...strung six or seven hits together, just a bunch of singles," Crowley, who went 3-3 with an RBI, said...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Baseball Hits Rough Spot Goes 1-3 vs. Dartmouth | 5/4/1994 | See Source »

...Crimson strung together nine hits in the fifth through eighth innings after being no-hit through four, but a freak groundout to third that deflected off Northeastern pitcher John Forneiro, and two hard-hit double-plays ended three of those rallies. (Harvard scored in the other inning, the sixth, off of Jamie Crowley's triple into the right-center...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: A Troubled Beanpot | 4/27/1994 | See Source »

Healthy cells apparently have a precise system for ensuring their mortality; short strips of DNA known as telomeres seem to provide a molecular clock. When a cell is young, it has more than a thousand telomeres strung along the ends of chromosomes like beads in a necklace. Each time a cell divides, 10 to 20 telomeres are lost, and the necklace grows shorter. Eventually, after many cell divisions, the necklace becomes so short that the cell fails an internal health check designed to keep old, possibly damaged cells from reproducing. Result: cell division stops, the cell begins to age rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...High-strung actress is dropped from Sunset Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Feb. 28, 1994 | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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