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...want to live with the disease, and where, what attitude their family should have toward them, even where and how they want to die." Those who test positive are given continuing psychological support, plus regular cognitive testing, particularly of memory, to see whether or not the disease begins to bite, with the first symptoms of dementia. The warning period of memory loss and confusion is typically three to five years. Molinuevo believes that knowing is as much benefit to the sufferer's family as to the sufferer him- or herself. "You will not suffer from Alzheimer's yourself because...
...chief executive Ron Sommer led the phone company on a binge of global acquisitions. The shareholders have been screaming for months. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, in the midst of a tough campaign to be re-elected on Sept. 22, saw the punter-voter connection and began putting the bite, or at least the sound-bite, on the company. Last week, under this intense pressure, Sommer resigned, admitting that he had lost the board's confidence. It was the end of seven stormy years for the 52 year-old, Israel-born CEO, who earned the nickname "the Teflon manager...
...salt pork--which is essentially really, really fatty unsmoked bacon--for a stew, using a split log as my cutting board. I don't know exactly how this stew will taste, but I am pretty sure it will include toothpicks. While I am chopping, I take my first bite of hardtack, the unspoilable bread substance the corps took with them. It's whole wheat flour, salt, water and a drop of butter, baked very crisp. And it's delicious, like a health-food-store wheat cracker. It would go great with goat cheese or pate. This last comment doesn...
Natural repellents (Bite Blocker and Green Ban) based on such plant extracts as soybean oil, citronella and eucalyptus, aren't as effective as DEET but might be enough for evenings on the porch. --By Sora Song
...Strange words from an opponent, but such is the nature of baseball's Ichiro paradox. He makes contradiction logical. Through June 30, he had but two home runs yet led the league in intentional walks. He speaks little English in a sound-bite era and yields no emotion in a culture that prizes personality; he's a contact hitter in a sport overdosed on power?yet he is baseball's most popular player. This year, for the second season in a row, Ichiro led every major league player in the fans' All-Star Game balloting. Yes, his 2.5 million votes...