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...stores memories in a number of areas, it is the frontal lobe that retrieves them and puts them to work. For all its data-crunching power, the frontal lobe is a fragile thing. Everything from fatigue to hormonal changes to simple cellular wear and tear can cause it to falter. "Frontal-lobe processes change in all people as they age," says Scott Small, assistant professor of neurology at Columbia and a research colleague of Mayeux's. "The bell curve shifts uniformly...
...DIMAGGIO Where have you gone, eBay? Joltin' Joe's items falter at Christie's auction...
Ghazal was the first to falter slightly, earning the win after three tough sets in No. 3 singles. Ghazal topped Andrea Sanders 6-3 in the first set, but dropped the middle set 1-6. Ghazal made quick work of Sanders in the final match, defeating her 6-1 for the victory...
...Social Security system will falter or fail before their retirement...
...lose in New Hampshire, Bush's biggest long-term asset against McCain is his ability to rally the armies of the Republican establishment to his cause. As the front runner began to falter last fall, the donors, officeholders and interest-group activists who make up the G.O.P. elite began plotting ways to prop him up. In Washington, according to several top Bush supporters, word went out that any defections to McCain would be treated as a betrayal of the party's best interests. "There was a clear understanding that you don't screw around with the primal forces of nature...