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...work suggests a way to prolong life, scientists are a long way from making it a reality--and it may be too risky to be useful. The study proves something that researchers already suspected: each of the 1 trillion cells in the human body contains its own biological clock, which tells the cell when to stop growing and start dying. It might be possible to stop that clock. But would it be prudent? Many biologists think the cell's planned obsolescence is an all-important safeguard against the development of cancer...
...start thinking about your exam, or your class, or about what that guy said about you at lunch, and then five o'clock in the morning rolls around. You start looking at your clock, counting the hours remaining between you and your class or your exam and feeling vaguely...
...turn the clock over so that you can't see it; after a while, you begin to fear the light that you know will come streaming in the window far too soon. You lie in bed, alternately staring at the ceiling and the insides of your eyelids, trying to remember what someone once told you when you had trouble sleeping as a child, to pretend that you are lying on a raft on the ocean or that you are floating on a cloud. You start thinking about balancing on a cloud and what clouds are made of and whether...
...enemy is us. Take a ride with "Anne," a 40-year-old mother of three who would rather we not use her real name, as she steers her 2 1/2-ton black Chevy Suburban out of her driveway on a leafy street in residential Washington. The clock on the dashboard reads 2:16. She has 14 minutes to make it to her daughter's game. Within a block of her house she has hit 37 m.p.h., taking stop signs as suggestions rather than law. She has a lot on her mind. "I'm not even thinking of other cars," Anne admits...
...have it to themselves. Except they all denied it to the government, and that's a criminal offense. "The more Justice gets from B&W, the more dirt it gets on the rest of them," Shannon says. "There are a lot of tobacco lawyers that just went on the clock today...