Half-Life

extends lifespan in yeast --David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, led the research The compound is one of 17 plant molecules so far found to extend life in baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Resveratrol also gives fruitflies, which typically live for around a month, an extra ten days of life. Sinclair gave his yeast fresh grape extract. Normally, the organism divides around 25 times and then dies. Resveratrol-treated yeast underwent an extra 15 replications. Resveratrol is

of the day, tanned and content, they had driven home. All the details of this foreign life – the upstairs house, the children’s room – had been taken from American comic books which had been circulating in the mission school. These details had been mixed up with local details, like the holiday clothes and the holiday sweets, some of which Mom and Pop had at one stage out of their own great content given to half-naked beggars. This composition was awarded full marks, ten out of ten, and Willie was

little I read a book of the life of Anne Frank and knowing his house would be a great experience for me. The other reason is that it is for me a very unique city because of its water channels that run through it. "There is nothing more enjoyable than The Hague, when the sun deigns to show itself, we can see here as meadows, canals and green trees, is an earthly paradise from The Hague to Amsterdam" Voltaire Duration of my stay I was in Amsterdam for two and a half weeks, whereas normally the

know that they also had an impact on the writer’s work. Fortunately, there are some recently restored gems that satisfy both the general obsession with peeking into private houses and the deeper interests of the dedicated reader or scholar. Austen’s life and work have an extensive filmography, with directors keen to exploit the appeal of period interiors and costumes. The houses in which she lived, and those she visited, already form a popular tourist route – and not only because she lived, died or

18th century, the Australian mainland and Tasmania were inhabited by around 250 individual nations of indigenous Australians. After sporadic visits by fishermen from the immediate north, and European discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, the eastern half of Australia was claimed by the British in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales, founded on 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in the following years; the continent was explored, and during

that ranks highly in international comparisons on human development, quality of life, life expectancy, literacy, public education, peace[9], prosperity, economic freedom, ease of doing business, lack of corruption, press freedom, and the protection of civil liberties and political rights.[10] Its cities also consistently rank among the world's most liveable. As far as i’m concerned, at first I could not adjust to life I had some difficulties to settle down but now everything is fine. But I realized

difficulties) and achieve (atteindre) success in life. In America, one has got the chance to succeed in life, to improve (améliore) one’s position both financially and socially. the self-made man : someone who rises from poverty through initiative and hard work. to start from scratch : partir de zéro to fulfil one’s dreams : réaliser ses rêves the « rags-to-riches » myth : idée de passer de la pauvreté à la richesse rags : haillons the harsh reality of daily life : la dure réalité de la vie de tous les

How long have you been waiting for the bus ? for half an hour Cela fait combien de temps que tu est la ? how long have you been here ? Si j’avais su j’aurais regardé le film if i had known i would have watchED the film J’aurais put te le dire i could have told you Il aurait du arreter de fumer he should have stopped smoking Sam prefererait etre condamné a mort plutôt qu’a perpetuité sam would rather be executed than spend his life in jail C’est l’élève le plus petit de l’école

en Afrique du Sud durant les années 1980 avec l'instauration de droits politiques aux indiens et aux métis avant d'être aboli en 1991. South Africa considers more than 51 million inhabitants distributed in 79,5 % of Blacks, 9 % of Whites, 9 % of Half-bloods and 2,5 % of Asiatics. South Africa is characterized by important mine fertility (gold, diamond, coal, etc.) which made her(it) essential for the western countries during the cold war and by an important population of European origin(stump)

brought up by their mother alone. 4. Possible quotations: "She turned her attention back to her bag, which still had space. What else should she take?" (l.6-7) / "the sensation that everything around her was diaphanous, and that she herself was half here and half not" (l.43-44) / "Fi". Chris at the door of the bedroom, waved in the air the paper on which he'd written a list of all the items he thought she should bring and might forget." (l.30-31) / "Davi reached out to squeeze Fi's shoulder. 'Just be