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...Brown and a free throw byjunior Rose Janowski, Feaster rebounded a miss bySeanor and laid it in for an 84-78 lead. ButBrown's Vita Redding responded by hitting her onlytrey of the night, and it was a one-possessiongame with 58 seconds on the clock...
...People don't flock to take out books at 5 o'clock in the morning," said Richard A. Phillips '99, who works nights at the circulation desk...
WASHINGTON: At precisely nine o?clock Friday morning, the Internet became a free territory. Well, not quite, but that is when the Commerce Department released a preliminary plan on its web site for phasing out U.S. government involvement in the name-registration business...
...Monica Lewinsky scandal isn't dying, it's at least breathing hard. After granting the "Christmas visit" story its 10 minutes of fame, both the 10 o'clock news on CNN and CNBC's "Brian Williams" had begun to sound a dirge for Kenneth Starr's case against the President. But by 10:25 p.m., the Lewinsky saga was gone completely. Mere minutes later, Sexgate-dependable CNBC was showing -- oh, the sweet innocence of days past! -- the Keebler Elf waving from the New York Stock Exchange podium to kick off a public offering. Has the world gone...
Scientists have long theorized that a cell's biological clock lies in its telomeres, little bits of DNA that coat the tips of the chromosomes and, much like the plastic cuffs on shoelaces, prevent the strands from unraveling. Every time a cell splits in two, the telomeres shorten, until finally, after about 40 to 90 divisions, they are reduced to stubs. Because any further divisions would fray the chromosomes, the cells settle into a twilight stage and eventually die. Only an enzyme called telomerase, first discovered in 1984, can repair the damaged telomeres. However, most human cells, with the exception...