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...most people, all this will mean reassurance as worrisome symptoms turn out to be nothing at all. "Normal is the new frontier," says Mony de Leon, director of the Center for Brain Health at New York University Tisch Hospital. And for those who do drift beyond that frontier, the same research may offer new hope for treatments and even cures...
...Small's most recent animal studies show that rising glucose levels in turn disrupt the function of the dentate gyrus. That doesn't draw a straight and conclusive line between waistline and memory, but it does suggest one. "It's possible," Small says, "that blood glucose, which tends to drift upward as we get older, is one of the main contributors to age-related memory decline...
...between his lips. He was chewing on it slowly and contentedly.With a sigh, Felicity draped herself over The Stable Boy’s magnificent chest and snuggled closer. She was aching in muscles she hadn’t even known existed. But just as her eyes were about to drift shut again, she saw something glint in the hay next to The Stable Boy. She turned her head to see what had caught the light.It looked like...no, that didn’t make sense. She reached out her arm, encircled the small object with her delicate fingers, and pulled...
...think of it broadly as those white Americans who lack a college degree. Once the Democratic stalwarts whose sense of economic self-interest sustained Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition, working-class whites were the patriotic, the churchgoers--and, yes, many of them were hunters--who began to drift from the Democratic Party in the turbulent 1960s and later became the margin of victory for Ronald Reagan. They have never fully returned to the Democratic fold and as a result have become less and less of a factor in its primary politics. Among those who remain with the Democrats...
...greatest strength and its ultimate downfall.Ostensibly, “Literary Men” is about three young men, Keith (Gessen’s fictional alter ego), Mark, and Sam—all with some literary or academic pretensions, all extremely reflective and self-obsessed—who drift through various complicated love affairs over the course of a decade or so, beginning at about 1994 and ending in early 2008. The novel alternates between the three characters’ tales, which are obliquely connected by the secondary characters who flit through all their lives. The plotlines are simple. Keith goes...