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That's what's facing Roberto Alomar, the Cleveland Indians second baseman who is widely considered one of the all-time great middle infielders. When the sun sets on his career, Alomar will most likely be remembered more for a regrettable - and highly regretted - 1996 spitting incident than for any of his on-the-field feats...
...this spring the chairman reset his course, and other doves on the panel found themselves in full retreat. The tough new thinking was reinforced by the arrival of voting members like Jerry Jordan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Ohio). "There is [agreement] right now that the economy is growing too rapidly," Rivlin says. The moral: "If you step on the brakes a little and the car doesn't slow down, then you need to step on them a bit harder the next time...
Some days all I want to do when I get home is plop down in front of the TV set and let my brain go blank. You probably know the feeling. But if two groups of neurologists--from University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio--are right, we may all live to regret our tube-trolling ways. At a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology last week, they reported that people who remain active outside of work by taking up such stimulating activities as painting, gardening or playing a musical instrument are three times less likely...
There isn't much data about whether lifestyle choices, like the ones the Cleveland groups investigated, can help delay the onset of Alzheimer's. A French study five years ago found that older folks who travel, do odd jobs and garden are less likely to have Alzheimer's than more sedentary seniors. But those results could just as easily indicate that people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's are less likely to be active...
That's why the Cleveland doctors focused on their subjects from ages 20 to 60--most likely long before they developed any symptoms. The researchers looked at 193 men and women with Alzheimer's and asked them, or their caregivers, how they spent their free time when they were younger. The scientists compared the answers with those given by 358 people of roughly the same age and background who had similar occupations but didn't have Alzheimer's. "We found that intellectual activities were relatively more protective than physical ones," says Dr. Robert Friedland, who led the study. The results...