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A new study suggests that nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3, may help people suffering from multiple sclerosis. The study, which was conducted on mice with a disease similar to MS, showed that the vitamin not only protected the nerve fibers of the mice from degeneration and loss of fatty insulating tissues, but also slowed down the process of nerve fiber damage. MS is a chronic degenerative disease of the central nervous system.

DEFINITION: (noun) A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information. SYNONYMS: separatrix, solidus, slash, diagonal, stroke. USAGE: Because the poem was reproduced in block text, virgules were used to indicate where the lines had originally been separated.

Sophia Loren is a famous film actress who grew up in poverty near Naples, Italy. With the help of Italian producer Carlo Ponti, whom she later married, she gained international fame acting in both tragic dramas and boisterous comedies. She won the first Academy Award for a foreign-language performance for her role in the 1960 film Two Women, and she received a special Academy Award in 1991 for her body of work. Why did she serve an 18-day prison sentence in 1982?

Fortran is a computer language whose name is a blend of the words "formula" and "translation." Developed in the 1950s by John Backus, its many versions are still in use today as the primary language for some of the most intensive supercomputing tasks, such as weather/climate modeling, computational chemistry, quantum chromodynamics, and simulation of automobile crash dynamics. Why is Fortran primarily used for scientific and numerical tasks?

Casanova was an 18th century adventurer and writer whose memoirs became world-famous. After a short career in the Church, he turned to a life of adventure, traveling all over Europe and supporting himself by gambling, spying, writing, and, especially, by his power to seduce women. He was imprisoned for witchcraft at age 30, but managed to escape and later amass a great fortune. A man of learning and taste, he wrote over 20 books and produced a translation of what famous epic poem?