Geneticist Thomas Johnson, now at the University of Colorado, showed that altering a single gene, called age-1, doubled the worms' term of life to one month.

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The movement started around the time of the 1992 riots that followed the Rodney King verdict, when a previously wayward young man named Thomas Johnson reinvented himself as Tommy the Clown and established an institution called Tommy's Hip Hop Clown Academy.

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Whatever his disappointments, Mr. Thomas improved Johnson's global reach and expanded enrollment in its executive M.

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