Word: ada
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...Ada Yonath...
...have ground to a halt. "We were supposed to have another neighbor, but his financing didn't come through," says Vinny. It's not the neighborhood full of life he had imagined his children growing up in. "Everybody just pushed the pause button," says Russell Dane, president of the Ada County Association of Realtors...
Dave Kaufmann likes people yelling at him as he drives through La Cañada, Calif., the wealthy suburb north of Los Angeles where he lives. What they're shouting about is his battery-powered electric vehicle, one of up to 30,000 estimated to hit the streets of Southern California in the next 36 months, the biggest expected e-car surge in the country...
Sexy, But Which Sex? An inspiration and patroness to adventurous young directors, especially women, Swinton made her American-film debut as a pan-sexually voracious attorney in Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lynn Hershman-Leeson cast her as Lord Byron's daughter Ada King, who devised an early computer, in Conceiving Ada, and, in Teknolust, as a geneticist who makes three copies of herself (you must see the trio dance together in kimonos). But it was Sally Potter's Orlando, which Swinton helped raise the money for, that won the actress her sturdiest pre-Hollywood acclaim...
...With his latest findings, however, Wackers thinks the ADA guidelines are ready for a revision. Heart screenings may not be as important as basic primary prevention strategies, such as ensuring that diabetes patients control their weight, cholesterol and blood pressure, and stop smoking. He argues that if the rate of heart problems is indeed declining in diabetes patients because they are being adequately treated for the risk factors for heart disease, then the stress test recommendation becomes redundant - and expensive...