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...forward pass. But the Harvard defense swarmed him, and he launched a dying quail that didn't reach the line of scrimmage. That was key, for now Harvard needed only to get the ball back and maintain possession to seal the deal, as time was running out on the clock...
...controlled the half's tenor. He helped Harvard expire more than seven minutes off the clock (when a team has a 21 point lead, it wants to keep the clock ticking) in the fourth quarter...
...waters off the coast of Long Island, around-the-clock dredging of the crash site is just about finished. Last week boats also discovered the remains of another of the 230 dead, leaving 15 still unaccounted for. Salinger says the FBI has encouraged him to continue his investigation. If he's wrong about the missile theory, he says, it would be "the first mistake I've made since the 1930s or early 1940s." One hopes the official investigators on the case are driven by a more humble attitude...
...monumental stuff. If human tissue behaved in the body the same way it did in the dish, they felt, it meant that somewhere in the nanoviscera of each cell there was an actuarial hourglass that gave it only so much time to live and no more. If the clock could be found--and, more important, reset--both the cells and the larger corpus that gave rise to them might be made immortal. Of course, hypothesizing the existence of such a cellular timekeeper was one thing; finding it and manipulating it were something else again. In the years since, senescence scientists...
...long-lived nematodes have helped expose a few of them. Hekimi created his little uberworms by crossing and recrossing individuals that lived longer naturally, slowly extending the life-spans of later generations. He then searched the animals' chromosomes until he found the mutated gene responsible, a gene he dubbed Clock-1. "The Clock-1 gene is critical in setting life-span," Hekimi says. "More important, with cloning and genetic mapping, we were able to determine just which protein the gene created to get that job done...