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...leading theory to explain this fortunate disconnect is the brain-reserve hypothesis, which suggests that people who have more cognitive ability and more neural tissue to start with - sharper minds, broadly - may be better able to withstand the ravages of age. "In some ways, you could think of it like a trained athlete who might be able to resist some atherosclerosis of the heart," explains Dr. Bradley Hyman, director of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Language Skills Ward Off Alzheimer's? A Nuns' Study | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...narrative was whether she could possibly juggle her complex personal and public lives. By now we're used to seeing stories about professional women who conclude that "having it all" is a myth and leave the arena in search of their inner Donna Reed. This "trend" is used to explain the paradox that women now make up a majority of college grads and have roughly matched men in law and business and medical schools but are still paid less and remain dramatically underrepresented in executive suites, not to mention statehouses and the White House. (See five reasons Sarah Palin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin Resignation: A Family Choice? | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...That last comment might help explain why Obama has opted to deliver his key Africa speech to Ghana's Parliament rather than to a public crowd, which would probably have drawn huge numbers. The news site Politico last weekend speculated that Obama - or his security detail - may also want to avoid the kind of bedlam that greeted Bill Clinton's visit to Accra in 1998, when he was nearly crushed by a crowd that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. On that day, as people surged toward the stage, the visibly terrified Clinton shouted, "Get back! Get back!" (Read "Into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to OBamako: Africa Awaits Obama's Return | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...investigators to obtain personal information about members of the public. Indeed, using investigators is not illegal if the information they obtain is used in the public interest. But as Andrew Neil, former editor of the Sunday Times (a News International paper) pointed out on Thursday: "Someone has yet to explain to me why getting into the voice mail of Gwyneth Paltrow after she's had a baby is in the public interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Tabloid Shocker: Celeb Phones Hacked! | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...mentioned how "You Are Here" signs can actually make people feel more lost. Can you explain why that is? For a "You Are Here" map to work, it's almost universally true that the upwards direction on the map has to translate to the direction in front of you. And if it's not, it's worse than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Get Lost | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

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