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...always been the best, but I had always been the best in a very small pond," Seltzer says of her high school days. "So there was this wariness or unease about coming to Harvard.... I really didn't know how this was going to play...
...Freshman year was this period of discovery that even in this very big pond one can have impact," Seltzer says. "If one is good at things at Harvard one can have impact...being a leader at Harvard, getting people to follow you [and] helping people to learn...
...Lead me to the place where the turtles play") when the story is read by an adult with a three-year-old chiming in. Linda Messier's glowing, Henri Rousseau-inspired illustrations help a child recognize the frogs, catfish, wood ducks and otters that inhabit a nighttime pond deep in the woods. Alligators turn up too, but this being a gentle tale, they pretty much keep to themselves...
...scientists was obvious: study the cells with little or no replication limit and find out what mechanism kept their telomeres--and their lives--so long. In 1984 molecular biologists Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn, then with the University of California, Berkeley, did just that. Working with a single-cell pond organism, they discovered a telomere-preserving enzyme they dubbed telomerase. Five years later, Gregg Morin at Yale University confirmed their work, identifying the same substance in cancer cells. In the Petri dish, the agent of eternal life had been found...
...Creation Research in Santee, California. "There is no scientific evidence for evolution. All the real solid evidence supports creation." Bill Hoesch, a spokesman for the institute, says, "[John Paul] would say that man's dignity does not suffer even if God used the process of evolving him from pond scum through the apes to the present so-called dignified position, and we would differ with that...