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Scherf’s effort—as evident in her victory Friday—has been a key in her improvement and development this year, and her elder teammates are quick to point...
...problem for Harvard students in the sense that they’re at an age where we should know that they’re at an increased risk,” Palfrey said. “It’s more of a problem for infants and elder citizens who are at risk and may not actually get the vaccine...
...alarming number of the residents in assisted-living facilities are suffering from mental illness, according to a new study by Indiana University. In a four-state survey of 2,100 seniors living in these increasingly popular elder-care facilities, physicians found that fully two-thirds of the residents exhibited behaviors ranging from aimless wandering and hoarding to more serious signs of dementia, depression and psychosis. Such symptoms are thought to be far more common in those living in nursing homes, who suffer from more serious medical problems. Similar signs of mental instability are found in 50% to 80% of those...
...been held for having truck with renegade anti-U.S. commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Kochi was sprung because he could deliver more than 55,000 votes from his Ahmedzai tribe, according to an influential tribesman involved in the negotiations. But after his two years in Gitmo, the gray-bearded elder may choose not to help Karzai. Revenge, after all, is an Afghan specialty...
...since before man walked on the moon seems to have done little to deter him. When he covered President Richard Nixon, he was known as "the reporter the White House hates." In 1988 he relentlessly grilled George H.W. Bush, then Vice President, about the Iran-contra affair, and the elder Bush has not spoken to him since. Rather got in trouble again in 2001 for speaking at a Democratic fund-raiser in Texas, for which he later apologized. But those who know him well say he isn't driven by politics as much as his addiction to breaking news...