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What makes the JAMA study particularly noteworthy is its rigorous design. The researchers started with 309 test subjects who either had Alzheimer's disease or had suffered a stroke. These were randomly divided into two groups. One was given 120 mg of ginkgo extract, the other a placebo. Neither the doctors nor their patients knew who had been given what until the end of the study. Meanwhile, researchers measured mental deterioration using three standardized tests. The improvements were modest--a few points, say, on a 70-point scale--and showed up in only two of the three tests, but because...
...France. In a related way, America in the past century has mantled itself with museums, as the temple of art gradually replaced the church as the emblematic focus of civic self-esteem. Now, two grand projects by leading American architects, utterly different from each other in purpose, appearance and design philosophy, may be said to mark the climax of the age of American museum expansion. One is in Los Angeles and opens officially in December--though small flotillas of previewing VIPS have been trawling through it for the past few months. The other, already open, is under American management...
...design of tenure is to protect academic freedom-and the difficulty of dismissing a professor based on academic work may be best illustrated by the case of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at the Medical School...
Tripoli, who helped design and build much of Dracula's Castle, said that the construction, which is repeated year after year, is long and arduous...
Although the committee's list of options, presented by Alex B. Krieger, professor in practice of urban design at the GSD, attempted to accommodate community concerns, most residents could not see beyond a few fundamental differences...