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...common type of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, is characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells. Gradually robbing people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function, it typically kills within 5 to 10 years. Apart from the distress it causes sufferers and their loved ones, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: in Australia it drains an estimated $A3 billion a year from the public purse...
...There’s a lot of fear going around this high school,” said a student member of the School Committee, James Conway, referring to the distress surrounding MCAS scores. “People are really trying their hardest to pass this test and succeed, and they should be commended,” Conway said...
...disasters. Some eyewitnesses said the fire on board may have ignited an explosion in the ship's vehicle parking bay, which occurred shortly before the vessel went down. Survivors interviewed by Time also complained of the poor response of the 96-person crew, which reportedly failed to issue a distress signal. Rifaat said that the ship sailed for at least 90 minutes after the first sign of trouble and might have been able to return without loss of life to Duba if it had turned around, which the captain reportedly refused to do. Mohammed Abdallah, 41, another Egyptian survivor, told...
Elaborating on this idea of simultaneity, Palmer said that the book emphasizes “what it means to be alive and well at the same moment as others are in distress, and what we can do to respond to others’ pain...It’s so much about personal engagement and personal choice,” he said...
...term, his efforts in Iraq position him to become the voice and inspiration for disaffected Muslims around the world. "More and more people are veering into Islamic extremism and embracing the Iraqi cause ... all converging on al-Zarqawi's struggle," says a senior French counterterrorism official. "To our great distress, he's doing just fine without ever turning his attention from Iraq." As long as that's true, al-Zarqawi will be at the forefront of the war against the West that his old boss started...