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...drink they serve in New Orleans is called cafe brulot: coffee mixed with spices and liquor, served flaming. Add a beignet, and you've got the culinary equivalent of the music of the New Orleans-based band Galactic: a brew of deep funk, acid jazz and stomping rock, with a bit of sugar-sweet melody. Not all the songs on Late for the Future work: a fair number lack rhythmic complexity, and these tracks wash out of the listener's mind quickly. But Galactic is a jam band that revels in the moment. The best songs on this album feel...
Other purported memory potions include such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDS) as Advil and Motrin, which in one study appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease as much as 50% over a 15-year period. Lecithin, vitamin B12 and folic acid also generate buzz in the memory biz, but again there is little or no in-the-lab science to back up the claimed benefits. "There just aren't any good data that we know of," says Buckholtz...
...most traditional pursuit has been reinvigorated by modern technologies. A scrapbook would seem antithetical to the digital age: a clunky, tangible thing in a universe of rapidly deleted e-mail and disappearing web pages. But it was only within the past decade or so that manufacturers began mass producing acid-free paper (which prevents pictures from yellowing or deteriorating) and that machines able to replicate photos began turning up in craft shops and drugstores...
...says Allyson Pikulik, 22, manager of a store in Milwaukee, Wis., that employs 12 instructors to teach 25 classes on the pastime. Anything from ticket stubs to playbills to corsages to diary entries can go into scrapbooks. Processing them in the approved way, however, has come to involve acid-free markers, "archival mist" (a spray that preserves objects), stickers, borders, circle scissors, paper cutouts and a host of other products by art suppliers formerly beholden to the whims of kindergarten teachers and Halloween revelers...
That amount, multiplied by all the sentimental souls in the nation, equals good business for such companies as EK Success (which sells acid-free pens), Mrs. Grossman's (which specializes in stickers of butterflies and puppies and such) and Fiskars (which makes scissors). There are even magazines devoted entirely to the joys of scrapbooking. Creating Keepsakes is the biggest publication, with a circulation of almost a quarter-million. The magazine started publishing six times a year in 1996; now it is published 10 times a year and attracts 5,000 new subscribers a month. And inevitably, an online scrapbook, LifeSketch.com...