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While the term neoi is generally used in Greek literature to designate young people, as opposed to gerontes , or middle-aged men, it also defines, in the institutions of Hellenistic cities, a category that clearly distinguishes young citizens, aged …

Joseph Goldstein and I met in June 1966 when we both joined the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as medical interns. Joe had graduated from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas, one of the youngest medical schools in the UnitedStates. I …

Starvation is a major cause of death in the world, killing more than 6 million children each year. Throughout evolution famine has been a constant threat to all animal species. As a result, evolution has selected for powerful mechanisms to maintain life …

In the 1970s, Joseph Goldstein and I discovered that the level of low density lipoprotein (LDL) in plasma is controlled by the number of LDL receptors on liver cells. We also found that the production of LDL receptors is regulated. When liver cells are …

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Abstract Finally, the sixth and last lesson dealt with the conversion of the quantum state of a mechanical resonator into an electromagnetic quantum state, and vice versa. This process is similar to the teleportation of a quantum state discussed in the …

Heart attacks are the most frequent cause of death in France as in every western industrialized nation. The disease begins in the teenage years when cholesterol-carrying lipoproteins begin to penetrate into the walls of the coronary arteries that carry …

A local example introduces this global theme: two people, a French-speaker and a Dutch-speaker, meet on a sidewalk in Brussels. The French-speaker has a rough command of Dutch, so, for once, the conversation begins in that language, and the …

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