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Taste gene sweetens life, but just for some
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NEW YORK Sugar may taste sweeter and hot peppers burn hotter for
about a quarter of the population than for the rest of us.
New research suggests that these "supertasters" can thank - or
blame - their genes and maybe even an unusual abundance of taste
buds.
Experts caution that the results, not yet published, need
further study. But the early findings add another twist to the
largely murky field of how genes influence human taste perception.
Researchers say such work may one day help the food industry
develop and test new products, and perhaps even give insight into
eating disorders.
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The epigrams of Sir John Harington.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9780754660026 The epigrams of Sir John Harington. Harington, John. Ed. by Gerard Kilroy. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2009 348 pages $99.95 Hardcover PR2284 Elizabethan...
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Translating the Pope and the Apennines: Harington's version of the Orlando Furioso.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; Sir John Harington's translation of the Orlando furioso...intervention in the text of the original. That Harington significantly abbreviated the text of...religious, in which he and they lived. Sir John Harington's translation of the Orlando...
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Letter to the Editor: Sir John's john
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...was invented in about 1590 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Elizabeth I. Patrick...contains a description of the Harington water-closet along with an illustration...engaged in less Godly business." Harington is one of the worthies depicted...
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Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...the latter category especially to Sir John Harington and Sir Thomas Tresham, to what...the work of archival recovery. Harington and Tresham figure largely in Kilroy...focuses on Campion's years at St. John's College, Oxford, with its...
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Ten lords a-leaping: at court, the twelve days of Christmas were a time for politics, intrigue and manoeuvre as well as for merry-making. Leanda de Lisle explores the mixed feelings induced in a courtier embroiled in the great affairs of the day, by two very different Christmases, just twelve months apart.(CROSS CURRENT)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...godson, the writer and courtier Sir John Harington (1560-1612), arrived at Whitehall...playing for the highest stakes. As Harington reflected, Elizabeth was sixty...the Archbishop of Canterbury, John Whitgift, beside her. His plain...
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A martyr's memorial in verse
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...transcription of Campion's poem, Harington's transcription of Walpole's poem, and Harington's autograph epigrams...case are two key figures, Sir Thomas Tresham, the creator...Triangular Lodge', and Sir John Harington, godson of the queen and...
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Review of Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies
; ...the bag, his poems (in John Carey's prescient analysis...surprising is the case of Sir Philip Sidney, whose status...The Guardian, where John Sutherland praised it as...Thomas Tresham and Sir John Harington -- who 'dedicated their...
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From Mistress to Master: Political Transition and Formal Conflict in Measure for Measure.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Criticism
; ...which is suggested in a remark of Sir John Harington's occasioned by one of James...before he hathe offended.(7) Harington's lament neatly captures the...rhetoric. At the same time, Harington's observation concerning the...
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Charles Chester and Richard Hakluyt.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, and Sir John Harington. But this article retraces his...goods were confiscat, his factor John Drue was attached, and he also...including Thomas Nashe, Sir John Harington, Everard Guilpin, Thomas Dekker...
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Your humble handmaid: Elizabethan gifts of needlework.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...they could expect in return. As Sir John Harington, the queen's godson and something...However fond he was of his queen, Harington's gifts were clearly an attempt...Russell. She asked her nephew, Sir Robert Cecil, to intercede regarding...
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