Word: delays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Republican vote-counters are holding back their true numbers," he says. "The lower their count is, the more Demorats the White House has to lean on to get to 218. Those confrontations create bad blood, bruises, divisions. The Republicans love that." But behind the scenes, Republican hatchet man Tom DeLay is pushing his colleagues almost as hard as the White House is pushing Democrats. "When it came out recently that high tech was giving a lot more money to the Democrats, Republicans were appalled," Branegan says. "They want to show that they're the free-trade, pro-business party...
Except at the DeLay residence, though, the show has become a D.C. mainstay. Last week when Bradley Whitford, who plays deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman, was having lunch on Capitol Hill with an old friend, half a dozen lobbyists stopped by to drop off business cards and offer ideas for future plot lines that favor their clients. The staff of Michigan Representative John Conyers helpfully sent along 200 pages of material on the issue of paying reparations to black Americans as compensation for slavery--a topic that figured in an earlier episode...
...DELAY Paleo-Repub blasts TV's West Wing as too liberal. Oh, please. That's so Murphy Brown...
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...
...idea that Alzheimer's might be at least somewhat preventable--if not by mental gymnastics, then by chemistry--has attracted lots of interest. The National Institute on Aging launched a research trial to see if anti-inflammatory drugs, such as naproxen or the COX-2 inhibitor Vioxx, can delay onset. Another study compares the Alzheimer's drug Aricept with vitamin E to see if the latter can ease cognitive problems. But these are all preliminary explorations of intriguing clues and don't yet apply to everyday life...