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...country and what is pulling us apart, we took to Highway 50 because it would let us take our time. As transcontinental roads go, it is more like a street than a highway, a long, lazy course that skips the Beltway and heads right downtown through the clutter of our lives, with plot twists and cattle crossings and slow, shaggy climbs through the mountains with warnings to stay in low gear for the next 17 miles. The road begins in Ocean City, Md., and by the time it runs out in California, it has crossed 12 states, the Great Plains...
Perhaps Gates has spotted an opportunity here. Microsoft is hoping to cash in--again--by selling "intelligent agents" that will help sort all forms of digital clutter, including E-mail. Joe's a bore, so relegate his notes to the bottom of the list. Shoot to the top anything from the boss. Primitive versions, called bozo filters, are already available to help deflect some of the more predictable detritus by sender and topic...
...Among other things, plaques appear to impair the ability of neurons to absorb glucose from the bloodstream, generating an energy crisis inside the cell. A competing hypothesis maintains that Alzheimer's begins not with beta amyloid but with a protein called tau. Abnormal variants of this protein, say scientists, clutter the interiors of neurons with tangled filaments that disrupt cellular metabolism...
...local newspaper, once an indispensable part of daily life, is becoming just one more piece of information clutter. Readership is declining even as new technologies transform or undermine the role newspapers have traditionally played: that of town crier, bulletin board, community troublemaker and trusted interpreter of the outside world. For years newspaper circulation has in general been on an inexorable slide. Between 1992 and 1995 it fell about 3% nationwide, with some major papers taking even bigger hits. The Los Angeles Times, for example, lost 3.5% of its circulation last year, though it is up slightly this year. The percentage...
Scientists still do not know, for example, whether Alzheimer's kills nerve cells (neurons) and whether it does so from the inside out or outside in. Supporters of the first scenario believe abnormalities in a protein called tau cause neurons in the brain's memory centers to clutter themselves up with tangled filaments, bringing cellular metabolism to a standstill. Still others think the damage is dealt by an external agent: the so-called beta-amyloid protein that aggregates in the brain, forming fibrous plaques. These plaques in turn injure neighboring neurons, causing them...