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jebbypalDon't ever forget that Dear Dick wants us at war with Iran
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twistedchick points out that we should be sending our complaints about LJ's customer service to the Better Business Bureau
Artic sea ice at all time low
Gitmo lawyers challenge FISA bill in court
Giuliani thinks he's the same as people who worked on the pile
Bacteria don't cut short life (at least in fruit flies). Honestly, I'm surprised that anyone did this. I'd never heard the argument that "bacteria are responsible for cutting life short". Granted, elderly are more susceptible to infections and succumb to complications from them easily. But death generally occurs from heart or blood vessel problems. And the length of life (and stability of cells upon many many divisions) has been shown to be directly attributable to the telomeres in DNA (basically the ends of the dna. Every cell division shortens these in almost all cell types and at a certain point, they get too short and cause the cell to die. Mice have unnaturally long telomeres actually, so it took a long time to discover).
twistedchick points out that we should be sending our complaints about LJ's customer service to the Better Business BureauArtic sea ice at all time low
Gitmo lawyers challenge FISA bill in court
Giuliani thinks he's the same as people who worked on the pile
"I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers.... I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them."
Bacteria don't cut short life (at least in fruit flies). Honestly, I'm surprised that anyone did this. I'd never heard the argument that "bacteria are responsible for cutting life short". Granted, elderly are more susceptible to infections and succumb to complications from them easily. But death generally occurs from heart or blood vessel problems. And the length of life (and stability of cells upon many many divisions) has been shown to be directly attributable to the telomeres in DNA (basically the ends of the dna. Every cell division shortens these in almost all cell types and at a certain point, they get too short and cause the cell to die. Mice have unnaturally long telomeres actually, so it took a long time to discover).