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...editors ignore the potential impact of lowering the minimum legal drinking age on high school and middle school students. Drinking has decreased among that group in the past several decades. Reducing the age to 18 may offset this trend by bringing legal alcohol into high schools...
...gene—then you can imagine that clearly your cell doesn’t function property anymore.” Over time, as cells become worn out and become permanently damaged, more proteins are called away from their normal sites, leading more gene expression to go awry. This trend is part of the deterioration associated with aging. “To prove that SIRT1 has a direct role in lifespan you will need to generate a mouse where you over-express these proteins...and you look to see whether the mouse has a longer lifespan,” Mostoslavsky...
...world will grow wetter as a result of climate change, but others will grow dryer, and so far the drying is winning. The area of the earth's land surface classified as very dry has doubled since the 1970s; by 2050, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes, that trend will worsen. "You do the math, and it gets a little scary," says Stuart Minchin, a water expert with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization. (See pictures of Australia, the driest inhabited continent...
Iskenderian: The trend that is most shaping the industry today is undoubtedly commercialization, as microfinance is increasingly seen as a distinct asset class and a profitable business opportunity. The numbers are truly staggering. In 2006, over $2 billion in commercial capital poured into the microfinance industry. In 2007, this investment was over $3 billion. At the same time, MFIs themselves are increasingly transforming from non-profit organizations to regulated, for-profit institutions. They are doing so even as many microfinance institutions still rely on a guy keeping a big book with a ledger rather than a computer system. But there...
These findings are part of a larger trend toward a more widespread use of EHRs...