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...Angeles lawyer Marc Hankin watched as his father's Alzheimer's gradually robbed him of his ability to function and imposed devastating financial strains on his family. So Hankin, now 51, vowed that he would be ready in case he ever suffered any such disability. He has worked out a novel strategy to define when to activate his living trust--a document that designates people to manage his affairs if he no longer can. He has named his wife and his three closest friends to a competency committee, and granted them the power to declare him unfit and take control...
...classroom. "I got to do volunteer work at the food bank at my synagogue and apprentice to a dance company when I was a teenager, when others my age were sitting in classrooms," she says. But volunteering and dancing aren't necessarily better than chemistry and poetry. The basic function of a liberal education is to expose people to fields they normally wouldn't investigate. Whether you believe the purpose of education is to shape one's character in a democracy or to prepare Johnny for his job, neither is accomplished when kids get to study only what they want...
...answers, dear reader, are all to be found in the newly launched TIME archive. The online archive goes back to 1985 and contains the full text of the more than 25,000 TIME stories that have appeared over the past 16 years. An easy-to-use search function allows you to pinpoint quickly the most relevant TIME article on any topic...
...other countries. But Young is still not satisfied. The drug is an elixir for people who are newly injured, but the relief it offers is only partial, and many spinal-injury victims were hurt before it became available. Young's dream is to help those people too--to restore function already lost--and to that end he is studying drugs and growth factors that could improve conduction in damaged nerves or even prod the development of new ones. To ensure that all the neural researchers around the world pull together, he has created the International Neurotrauma Society, founded the Journal...
...Riedel family glassmaking tradition dates back 10 generations, to 17th century Bohemia. The present-day design concept is basic Bauhaus: form follows function, in this case a form that brings out the best in its contents and can even help disguise a fault or two. The volume and shape of the bowl, the thickness of the crystal and the rim's outward flare or inward curve and finish all help determine which of a wine's several layers of aromas develops first or most fully. It was Claus Riedel, designer and ninth-generation owner of the family firm, who first...