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...answer may come soon. The U.S. spends more than $1 billion a year on dementia drugs, and new ones are being developed every day. Researchers at Eli Lilly reported progress in Philadelphia on a compound that targets the sticky plaques in the brain that are the root cause of Alzheimer's. Other people, like Nancy Reagan, are pinning their hopes for a cure on stem cells--although experts are worried that in the wake of Ronald Reagan's death from Alzheimer's, those prospects may have been oversold. There are no miracle cures on the horizon, but there is reason...
...dictating democratic futures to Afghanistan and Iraq; ingratiate yourself with the Arab world. Thus, for example, precisely at a time when the U.S. and many Western countries are shunning Yasser Arafat for supporting terrorism and obstructing peace, Chirac sends his Foreign Minister to the ruins of Arafat's compound to shake Arafat's hand for world cameras...
...dictating democratic futures to Afghanistan and Iraq; ingratiate yourself with the Arab world. Thus, for example, precisely at a time when the U.S. and many Western countries are shunning Yasser Arafat for supporting terrorism and obstructing peace, Chirac sends his Foreign Minister to the ruins of Arafat's compound to shake Arafat's hand for world cameras...
...states like Bahrain and Dubai or returning to the U.S. "There's no doubt about it. The terrorists are winning here in terms of instilling fear in us," says an American businessman. He sent his wife and children back to the U.S. last November after al-Qaeda attacked a compound housing foreigners. He has stayed in Riyadh, but just barely: he stopped driving and hasn't been outside his compound in a month. "I won't be here long," he says...
...industry firms at two locations in the Persian Gulf coastal city. They murdered the British vice president of a Saudi company, then dragged his body from the back of their car for nearly two miles around Khobar's busy streets. Then they took their terror to Oasis, a compound of luxury residences, swimming pools and palm groves. For some 20 hours they rampaged through the complex, sparing Muslim residents while stalking and executing any non-Muslims they could find with machine-gun fire and ritualistic dagger slashes across their necks. "I am al-Qaeda, I am Muslim...