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...year survey of 469 elderly people living in the Bronx, N.Y., tried to get to the bottom of this chicken-or-egg question by following subjects who had no signs of dementia in the first seven years of the study. The results, which were published in 2003, showed that reading and playing board games or a musical instrument was associated with a decreased risk of Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Intriguingly, those with the strongest habits demonstrated the greatest benefits. Participants who solved crossword puzzles four days a week, for instance, had a 47% lower risk...
...same token, several studies have suggested that older folks who are socially active?who, for example, do volunteer work or attend religious services?have a reduced risk of dementia. There are, of course, plenty of caveats that go along with those observations, including the same old chicken-or-egg problem that haunts all observational studies: In this case, is withdrawal from society a cause or result of Alzheimer's disease...
...president called himself a “married man.” Standing at the edge of the dance floor, Summers complimented the students’ moves. “It’s a very spirited class,” he said, nibbling on a piece of fried chicken. “Many of the students seem to be more settled into break than studying.” Moments after Summers arrived, Diane N. Ghogomu ’09 approached him to ask for a dance as the DJ played “Don?...
WALLACE & GROMIT IN THREE AMAZING ADVENTURES NICK PARK The bard of Aardman Studios, Park is the gent who dreamed up Creature Comforts and the feature hit Chicken Run. But Park's signal contribution to stop-motion animation, as well as to an appreciation of the placid lunacies of the English middle class, is this trifecta of shorts about Wallace the inventor and his infinitely superior dog Gromit. The second film, The Wrong Trousers, is one of the great screen comedies and a tribute to man's dependence on animals...
Bombay may be India's hippest city, but until recently finding a decent international restaurant outside the top hotels was a challenge. Visitors wanting a change from local cuisine and hotel food resorted to fast-food chains or pseudo-Chinese diners, where the ubiquitous "chicken Manchurian" provided a spectacular example of the perils of fusion cooking. But Bombay is now finally getting the culinary makeover it has long deserved. And what Bombay does, the rest of India follows. Here's our pick of the city's best non-hotel venues...