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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holman said additional research will focus on related forms of dementia and the development of "brain signature" patterns in Alzheimer's disease...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Early Detection May Be Possible For Alzheimer's | 11/26/1985 | See Source »

...many, seeing friends and drinking--not necessarily in that order--constitutes The Game. But for the two football squads involved and those diehard fans sober enough to focus on the field, The Game is serious business...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Game, # 102 | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

...focus of this obsession is humble in its size: it is merely a small, round beanbag resembling a miniature baseball in design. To devotees of the sport of Hackey Sack, however, the bag's significance is quite large...

Author: By David Cook, | Title: Hacky Sackers Get Kicks in Harvard Yard | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...both sides are maneuvering in advance of the long-awaited first summit between Reagan and Soviet Communist Party Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev, set for Nov. 19 and 20. The President authorized the latest proposal just a week after he had tried, in his speech to the U.N., to shift the focus of world attention to issues like regional conflicts. He also gave an interview to five Soviet journalists--the first such session since John Kennedy spoke with an Izvestiya editor in 1961 --sat for questions from the BBC and held a hastily arranged televised briefing at the White House to announce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan Makes a New Offer | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...influential black thinkers who are vigorously challenging the liberal notions of their intellectual forebears, the black sociologists who dominated the civil rights era. Not every member of the new breed can be categorized as conservative or even ; neoconservative. But all express skepticism toward the civil rights leadership's traditional focus on discrimination as the cause of all of America's racial problems and on federal programs as the cure. Instead, they concentrate on the character and motivations of black Americans and the changing social structure within black communities. Much of the Old Guard has heatedly criticized the new approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining the American Dilemma | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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