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This article was published on page A1 of the Sunday, September 25, 2011 edition of The Columbia Daily Tribune with the headline \"South Farm offers up fun timeMU property invites visitors to explore..\" Click here to Subscribe. Michael Leonardelli, an enology associate with University of Missouri Extension, said Missouri, although it cannot be compared with wine-making regions on the West Coast, is \"further out along\" than many other states in terms of its wine stock. Since the 1960s, Missouri's wine scene has been on the rebound, and in 1983, the U.S. government designated Missouri as the country's first viticulture area.

-- Move Larkdale Elementary Principal Ron Broman to Mirror Lake Elementary. A replacement for Larkdale has yet to be selected.

Schmidt reviews Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism by Nick Fischer.

  Photo: The Apollo High School Student Council and FFA held their annual Sadie Hawkins dance on Sept. 5. As is tradition, six seniors were candidates for the titles of Daisy Mae and Lil' Abner.

\"The game could have turned into a disaster,\" said [Dave Hall], who was furious after the umpires reversed their call on [Matt Garbig]'s bunt. \"But our kids did a great job of keeping their poise.\" \"We've come from behind a lot this year and we knew we could do it again,\" [Zach Kolvey] said. \"Once we got that first run and then when we tied it, we knew we were going to win.\" \"They're a good team,\" AW coach Mark Nell said. \"They're a good hitting team and they hit some good pitches.\"

[Nick Fischer] said he would recommend that a committee of principals, teachers and parents be formed to study the situation. But he said he thought schools would have to use some type of nationally standardized test to determine which students would be admitted to federally-financed remedial classes.

Burton Atkinson, a teacher at the school for the past four years, was faulted for using the videotape of The Fossil Record, a film supporting the Biblical theory on the origins of life. The film is not approved for use in the Broward County school system's curriculum, which focuses on the evolution theory.

\"Maybe we should tell them that if they haven't made it by the 11th grade, goodbye,\" [Marie Harrington] said sarcastically. \"If after 10th grade you don't have it, it's probably going to be impossible.\"

[Fischer] (Monash Univ., Australia) reminds readers that when General Electric's Charles Wilson proclaimed in 1946 that US problems could be described as labor at home, Russia abroad, he was returning to a recurrent theme voiced by US business interests. The author cites the use of anticommunist rhetoric in the service of employer opposition to pro-labor and other reform movements and legislation from times prior to the Civil War and increasingly from the 1870s.

Cell senescence in rat kidneys in vivo increases with growth and age despite lack of telomere shortening. Somatic cells in vitro have a finite life expectancy before entering a state of senescence, but it is unclear whether this state occurs in vivo in kidney development, growth, and aging. We previously showed that human kidney cortex displays telomere shortening with age. In this study, we compared the structural and functional changes in rat kidney with age to phenomena associated with cellular senescence in vitro. We assessed the changes in Fischer 344 rat kidneys from age 1 to 9 months to define growth and development and from age 9 to 24 months to define aging. Rat kidney telomeres were approximately 35 to 40 kb long and did not shorten significantly. Expression of mRNA for p16INK4a, a characteristic senescence gene in vitro, was undetectable in most young rats but rose 27 fold during growth and a further 72-fold during aging. p16INK4a protein was localized to the nucleus and increased with age. p16INK4a mRNA also increased in other tissues. Lipofuscin and senescence-associated β-galactosidase increased in epithelium with growth and aging and their occurrence was significantly associated with each other. Lipofuscin was particularly found in atrophic nephrons. We conclude that cell senescence occurs in both growth and aging in rat kidney and may contribute to the age-related pathology. These changes are not due to telomere shortening, but may reflect cumulative environmental stress.