Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...made Dingell-Norwood sound like some scam rather than the best effort of Congressmen holding competing world views to balance the needs of patients against those of HMOs. It's called legislation, and until the Constitution is amended, it is how things get done. Washington can be venal and small. Viewers of 60 Minutes learned last Sunday that if you want a highway-construction contract, you have to hire a certain lobbyist named Ann Eppard, who happens to be the campaign manager and close personal friend of the congressional concrete king, Representative Bud Shuster. But Washington's not so venal...
...results were striking: While putting insulin receptors back in muscle and intestinal cells had only a small effect on longevity, replacing the receptors in the nervous system restored the worms' normal life span...
...idea that the brain may control aging is attractive from an evolutionary perspective too. Closely related species sometimes age at very different rates. Perhaps small changes in brain insulin systems allow for these changes...
...describes himself as a "West Coast sort of hick"--he's from a small town in British Columbia, population 5,000--who nevertheless overcame his doubts early...
Members of the coalition protesting at the Park Street T stop asked a small contingent representing the Revolutionary Worker, a Palestinian group advocating violence against Israel, to distance themselves from the vigil...