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Other Alzheimer's experts were quick to herald the finding as both provocative and extraordinarily hopeful, for it provides what may be the clearest sign yet that a medically treatable condition can accelerate the decline of Alzheimer's patients and make the difference between independent living and a nursing home. "By preventing strokes," says University of Hawaii neurologist Dr. G. Webster Ross, "we may actually be able to postpone the development of symptoms in people who have Alzheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GIFT OF LOVE | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...audience's feeling of ennui and superiority to the characters becomes clearest with the resolution of the play. Janie's boyfriend, Marty (Shrier), moves very rapidly through their relationship. He places a down payment on an apartment without even consulting her; when she doesn't feel comfortable moving in with him, he becomes upset. But as she starts to push him away from her life, he becomes more insightful, telling Janie that she's "shy and clumsy" and that she makes her life "harder than it has to be." Ironically, Janie uses Marty's advice and insight to dump...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: Life Stinks | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...Friday morning, the White House released 148 pages of memos, E-mails, routing slips and other bureaucratic flotsam that painted the clearest picture yet of the courtship between donors and policymakers. For months the White House has denied that the money gushing in from wealthy Asian interests clouded anyone's foreign-policy judgment. Yet the records show that the interests of American foreign policy were sometimes on loan to the President's political fortunes--and fortune hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASH-AND-CARRY DIPLOMACY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself with the majesty of a Jedi knight and an acting peer. The climactic dogfight, copied in a quillion arcade games, has thrust and logic; it's the clearest, most potent narrative section of the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: OUR CRITIC RIDES A TIME MACHINE | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...overwhelming as these benefits seem, there are some perks to the present system. The clearest one is reading period. If we wanted to have two weeks of reading period before finals, a luxury few other colleges offer, as well as finish before Christmas, we would have to start approximately three weeks before we do. That would have us beginning in the third week of August, cutting short internships and jobs that expect you to go through Labor Day. Further, many professors moan, starting before Labor Day would cut short their time on the Cape and at the Vineyard. However, starting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save Our Sanity: Reform the Calendar | 1/8/1997 | See Source »

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