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There was no lack of, well, buzz about Google's new Buzz social-media platform last week, but more important were a series of moves that suggest the search giant is ready to take a tentative step toward fixing one of its longest-held gripes: the speed of Internet connections...
...called TERC, which is already known to play a role in the production of an enzyme called telomerase. Telomerase repairs telomeres when they shorten. "That was very exciting for us," says Nilesh Samani, a cardiologist at the University of Leicester who co-led the research, which was published last week in Nature Genetics. "It gave us great confidence that we identified genetic variants on a pathway we already know is associated with telomere length...
...TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...damage done to Toyota by its recall of more than 5.3 million autos is accumulating: U.S. sales dropped 16% in January, and the company's stock surrendered $21 billion of value in a single week. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) threatened the company with fines for being slow to react to the problems--a pair of faults that can cause sudden, dangerous acceleration--even though the DOT has been criticized for the same reason. Lawyers, who are never slow to react, are swarming. One class action alleges that jammed accelerators on Toyotas have caused 16 deaths and 243 injuries...
...support electric cars, composed of thousands of charging poles in towns and cities and service stations along highways where depleted batteries can be swapped for fresh ones on long trips. (They're called "switching stations.") This isn't pie-in-the-sky stuff, either - Better Place announced last week that it had raised $350 million to support the venture, one of the largest rounds of venture capital for a clean-tech company ever. (The company is also planning to build charging networks in Israel and Portugal, but its Danish project is a bit further along...