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This may indicate that L1 element poly(A) tails shorten over time, obscuring their identification [ 24], while TSDs stay intact.
And the paper was fortunately able to get a minute with Robert Kraut of Carnegie Mellon University to get his explanation that it's very natural for human beings to shorten words.
And the Los Angeles Times lead is the National Institutes of Health's plans to dramatically shorten the government approval process for drugs, which could mean much faster access to new medicines, a story on nobody else's front.
Changes to be announced shortly "are not expected to alter the key part, where the demon is ordered to leave the person, but to shorten the accompanying prayers and invocations."
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.