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...latest version of the absolutely necessary Patriot Act, which updates the laws regulating the war on terrorism and contains civil-liberties improvements over the first edition, was nearly killed by a stampede of Senate Democrats. Most polls indicate that a strong majority of Americans favor the act, and I suspect that a strong majority would favor the NSA program as well, if its details were declassified and made known...
...that end, Pizzuto is doing everything she can to keep her brain, as well as the rest of her body, in top shape. The odds are decidedly in her favor. For one thing, she's blessed with good genes. But she also finds fulfillment in her painting, is active in her community, eats lots of vegetables and exercises regularly. According to the latest research on aging, those are exactly the sorts of things we all should be doing to help maintain our ability to remember, reason, make decisions and learn...
...feeling that you've stumbled into a story about how to prevent cardiac disease. But if fear of a heart attack isn't enough to get you to pamper your ticker, fear of senility just might. So think about doing your heart and your head a favor. If you smoke, quit. Get your cholesterol levels and blood pressure checked, and if they are high, get them treated. If you have diabetes, do everything you can to keep it under control. Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, consume fish once or twice a week...
...Asian student union with two classmates. Its members discussed what it meant to be Asian American, organized anti-sweatshop protests and supplied books on diversity issues, which they felt were lacking from Reed's library. Heshiki even dropped the English name her parents had given her?May?in favor of her middle name, which is Japanese for bright. "I started using it because I wanted people meeting me to have to?for one minute?struggle or acknowledge I was a little different," says Heshiki, 31, now a lawyer in Portland...
...battle when George W. Bush named him to the Supreme Court two decades later. As Alito's confirmation hearings kick off on national television this week, Senators and viewers will be asking, Is this the man of the memos, whose paper trail includes provocative passages against abortion and in favor of Executive power that have given Democrats and liberal interest groups the ammunition to portray him as a dangerous activist? Or would the high court be getting the more opaque and reserved scholar described by friends and co-workers and suggested by some of his later work...