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SENIOR MOMENTS Doctors know Alzheimer's can shorten a patient's life. But now Canadian researchers report that once someone is found to have Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the median survival may be only about three years--one-half to two-thirds less than previously thought...
...None of these are easy tasks. But we are also expressing our deep confidence in the dynamism and creative energy of our peoples by undertaking to increase our economic integration. Canada is one country that knows full well the benefits that can flow from trade liberalization - the value of Canadian trade with Latin America and the Caribbean has nearly trebled in the past 10 years. And the benefits do not stop there. With our partners and friends in the hemisphere, we understand the connection between freer trade, prosperity and social progress. We also recognize that to achieve lasting prosperity...
...demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better. A minority have vowed to shut down the meeting, in a replay of the chaos that beset the 1999 gathering of the World Trade Organization in Seattle - a threat apparently serious enough to persuade the Canadian summit organizers to turn the meeting site into a 10-sq-km redoubt...
...dictators." Indeed, in countries like Mexico, Peru and Chile, democracies have been considerably strengthened since 1994. Financial crises that overwhelmed Mexico in 1994 and Brazil in 1999 have been largely overcome. Regional trade and investment have expanded. Moreover, "this summit is about much more than trade," says Canadian foreign minister John Manley, pointing to such areas of cooperation as transport, education and the environment...
...Brazil's concerns about domination by the NAFTA superpower sound familiar in Canada and Mexico, which went through similar anxieties before creating their own free-trade ties with the U.S. Canadian trade minister Pierre Pettigrew, for one, says Canada's experience shows that Brazil's fears are unfounded. When NAFTA was signed, he recalls, "furniture production in Tennessee was 15 times larger than what our traditional furniture makers could build, but our furniture makers have done very well in the U.S. market because they have found niches." In the end, he argues, "Brazil will have to open its closed economy...