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...pathology at the University of Melbourne, who says drugs that could stop or reverse the disease may not be far off. Alzheimer's inexorably strips people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function. Characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells, Alzheimer's typically kills within 5 to 10 years of onset. Partly because the majority of patients spend the last stages of the illness in government-subsidized aged-care homes, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: an Access Economics report, also to be released next week, estimates that...
...sign of the heated opposition to Bush’s first term in office, opponents of the president managed to infiltrate and disrupt the convention for the fourth night in a row. One woman, displaying a sign which read “Bush lies,” was dragged away after she began shouting during the president’s speech. A second protester was escorted out of the building minutes later, but not before forcing the president to pause his address briefly as delegates chanted “Four more years” to drown out the heckler...
...Sadrists, for their part, demonstrated their capacity to disrupt the peace throughout southern Iraq, and in the capital where they essentially run the vast Shiite slum known as Sadr City, which houses two million people. Mehdi militants confronted Coalition forces in a number of southern Iraqi cities, and at Basra they even managed to take Iraq's oil exports offline. Beside the firefights initiated by his militias, there were also tens of thousands of Iraqis on the streets demonstrating against the U.S.-Allawi offensive by week's end. Particularly worrying to the new government will have been the spectacle...
...attacks by Sadr supporters on U.S. and government targets in the capital late last week, the government declared a curfew in Sadr City - but reports suggest it has been widely ignored. Since the resumption of hostilities at Najaf, Sadr's supporters throughout southern Iraq have resumed efforts to disrupt the peace. They've been particularly effective in Basra, where Iraqi authorities have been forced to suspend oil exports for the past two days in response to Sadrist threats, helping drive already skittish world oil market to record high prices...
...summer driving season ends. Paul Horsnell, head of energy research at Barclays Capital in London, thinks the average U.S. gas price will settle at around $1.80 per gal. by the end of the year, down from $1.90. That's assuming Yukos keeps pumping oil, no terrorist attacks disrupt Saudi production and an oil workers' strike in Norway is resolved. Until then, cost-conscious drivers can compare prices at sites like gasbuddy.com--or think about breaking out the bike. --By Bill Powell. With reporting by Barbara Kiviat