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...interact with the amyloid protein that builds up in the brain of Alzheimer's patients and eventually causes nerve cell death and cognitive problems. Clusterin may be involved in helping to clear away the amyloid that forms in the brain; but another variant of the gene may also allow amyloid to form fibrils, the sticky protein arms that further anchor amyloid plaques to nerve cells, much like a spider web ensnares prey. In late-onset Alzheimer's, it's possible that the body cannot balance these two functions of clusterin. "It may be that the difference between a variant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough Discoveries of Alzheimer's Genes | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...that that his filing lawsuits over the scandals sets off another round of ribald accounts of Berlusconi's private life. The latest suit was filed Wednesday against another left-leaning Italian daily, L'Unita, which had referred to a comedienne's sketch about Berlusconi allegedly taking medical injections that allow him to have sex. The Prime Minister's attorney, Niccolo Ghedini, explained to the daily Corriere della Sera on Friday that if necessary Berlusconi would testify in the libel case to prove that he is not impotent: "And why shouldn't Berlusconi be allowed to explain to 20 million Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Offended Berlusconi Goes on the Offensive | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

...with little concern for polish or production quality. Yet while weirder bands don’t mind sounding abrasive in pursuit of something loftier, Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger manage to pull off their eccentricity with good-natured aplomb. And as unusual as their work is, the Fiery Furnaces never allow themselves to get lost amidst the smoke and mirrors of a novelty album. Even on “Charmaine Champagne”—the album’s weakest track—there’s an abundance of ridiculous lyrics (“She?...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Fiery Furnaces | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

That point was often raised Thursday night further north on Florida's Gulf Coast, in Tampa. There, as a result, the Hillsborough County School Board ruled at a meeting that it would allow the speech. Dean and other speech opponents insist the Administration has not given educators an advance look at it, but Hillsborough schools superintendent Mary Ellen Elia announced that she and board members had indeed seen it and concluded that it conveys a healthy, nonpartisan message. Said Democratic board member Doretha Edgecomb: "It's a message that a lot of Presidents have given before." But some members complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Schools to Big Brother Barack: Stay Out! | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...will not allow or respond to the calls for the return of the Saddamist Baath Party. However, we have no problem coexisting with ordinary Baathists who have merged into society or those who have not yet merged but want to." - In a televised broadcast on Martyr Day in Iraq. (Al-Iraqiyah TV, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ammar al-Hakim, Iraq's Newest Shi'ite Leader | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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