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...flip side to all this promise is the challenge that comes with it, perhaps it's a good thing that we may have a long time to weigh the answers. The more scientists learn about the way we age, the more they wonder why we have to. Our skin replaces itself every two weeks, our bones every seven years or so. With the help of the code book, maybe scientists will one day turn our bodies into repair shops, learn how to control the genes that break and those that fix, so that our lives, like the immortal molecule Watson...
Appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer, Berman has the power to shape policy at a time when tightening budgets weigh increasingly on the minds of top University administrators...
...birds are Magellanic penguins, which weigh about 7 lbs., stand about 18 in. and reach a top swimming speed of 15 m.p.h. In the wild, they would make migrations of 2,000 miles along the coast of South America. That equals 26,400 laps around the zoo's pool, and the birds appear to be trying to swim every one of them...
...have been in jail for most of your daughter's life. How do you weigh responsibilities to your country against those to your family? If you have a conscience and you've made a decision to defy an authoritarian regime-to resist it thoroughly-then you have no choice but to put your personal life second. If I'd thought about my family, my wife, my daughter, I'd definitely have abandoned my mission. But if everyone with a family abandons this kind of mission, then who is left...
...teens' confusion is easy to understand. In addition to their shameless lollipop flavoring, bidis are smaller and weigh about two-thirds less than conventional cigarettes, so they may appear to be less substantial and therefore less noxious. But the dark Indian tobacco they contain has as much as three times the nicotine concentration of American grown. The leaf wrapping, which comes from the tendu plant, doesn't help either. Unlike the paper on a conventional cigarette, the tendu leaf is nonporous, so it prevents outside air from mixing with the inhaled smoke and diluting...