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"As monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking...
Talk about divine inspiration. Twenty-eight army recruits stood at attention at a swearing-in ceremony on May 6, each holding his weapon - a combination of spear and battle ax called a halberd - and listening intently to the boss' pep talk. "I hope that despite the heaviness of your service...
For nearly a century, scientists have wondered which of the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's is more important--the plaques that litter the empty spaces between nerve cells or the stringy tangles that erupt from within. The problem arose the moment a German neuropathologist named Alois Alzheimer stared through...
Ever since 1906, when German physician Alois Alzheimer described the degenerative brain disorder that bears his name, doctors have argued about what exactly causes the disease. Dr. Alzheimer carefully noted two main features of the autopsied brains of his patients: the dense clumps, or plaques, of protein that showed up...
1906 German neurologist Alois Alzheimer identifies a disorder that causes the progressive loss of intellectual functioning