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...loan. After six months, they had three offers rejected. "They say it's been a buyer's market, but it really doesn't seem like it," says Beth, an administrative assistant for the city of Corona. At the end of the summer, the couple found the home of their dreams - a three-bedroom, two-bath house perfect for raising a family. They bid $25,000 above the asking price but were passed over for a cash offer...
This extra brainpower can help an aging mind compensate and, in essence, delay the onset of dementia. "The longer you put it off, the less time people will suffer from it," says Yaakov Stern, a Columbia University cognitive psychologist, who has found that people with more education and more stimulating jobs are at a lower risk for developing Alzheimer...
...well-documented way to slow memory decline is through plain old aerobic exercise, says Art Kramer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, who found that six months of walking for about an hour three times a week improved memory, attention and decision making among study participants, whose average age was 72. "Physical activity appears to be neuroprotective," Kramer says. (See TIME's video about fitness gadgets...
...streets and sell yourselves.' " The buyer, Jude, forced them into prostitution on the streets of central Bloemfontein for 12 straight hours every night. Each morning, he collected their earnings - Sindiswa averaged $40 per night; Elizabeth, $65. Elizabeth tried to escape three times, once absconding for several weeks. Jude always found her or used Sindiswa as a hostage to lure her back, then enlisted an enforcer named Rasta to beat her. (See pictures of violence in South Africa...
...prepare its infrastructure for the half-million visitors expected to attend, tens of thousands of children have become ensnared in sexual slavery, and those who profit from their abuse are also preparing for the tournament. During a three-week investigation into human-trafficking syndicates operating near two stadiums, I found a lucrative trade in child sex. The children, sold for as little as $45, can earn more than $600 per night for their captors. "I'm really looking forward to doing more business during the World Cup," said a trafficker. We were speaking at his base overlooking Port Elizabeth...