jgeorge- As an American, I would call a piece of furntiture in which clothes were hung a "wardrobe," though that word seems very British to me, while I would call the small room or built-in space as jstro described a "closet." to anyone interested- Regarding telomeres, I have read several articles comparing them to the little plastic caps at the ends of shoelaces. Apparently both structures serve to keep the underlying fabric from fraying. In chromosomes, telomeres get shorter after each cell division. When they are "worn away" the DNA unravels and the cell dies. Thus, we age and die, and are in fact programmed to do so after a certain number of cell divisions. Stop the wearing away, and theoretically at least, you have a shot at immortality. (That's why cancer cells can go on dividing forever; they produce an enzyme, telomerase, which keeps repairing the shoelace cap, allowing uncontrolled division.)