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...validate - currently only two types of drugs have received government approval in the U.S. to slow the progression of Alzheimer's, but both offer only limited benefits - and many caregivers, desperate to better the lives of their patients, resort to such low-tech, behavior-based solutions as singing. (Read "Ginko Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advances for Alzheimer's, Outside the Lab | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...final tomorrow you haven’t started studying for. All the vitamins that start with B-something are your best friend, because they’ll help that hangover you got “studying.” The other important stuff in your drink, like ginseng, and ginko, are basically there to make it sound healthy, but are otherwise pretty useless. What about rest? Well, there’s sugar, sugar, some antioxidants and, if you’re lucky, more sugar. But to stay on the safe side, if you get overly jittery or nervous, or start...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don’t Drink and...Study? | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

Okay, so the movie has its moments. Pretty-boy Fatone singing Def Lepard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is pretty amusing, as is Dave Foley’s performance as Kevin’s Ginko-shake-swilling boss. However, the best moments in On the Line are certainly the unintentional gags. For instance, it seems as though after the film was shot, the producers decided to make it more kid-friendly by removing all the profanity. Thus, a character will look as if he’s saying...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: God Must Have Spent A Little Less Time On Them | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

Baba. In Tokyo the new Finance Minister, successor to assassinated Greatest-Japanese-Finance-Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, is that departed statesman's wily stooge, Mr. Eiichi Baba. As governor of the Government-controlled agricultural bankers' bank the Nippon Kwangyo Ginko since 1927, ingratiating Eiichi Baba has made the most of opportunities to become friends with the Radical-Militarists. The Army is almost entirely of peasant stock and absolutely resolved that exploited and oppressed Japanese rustics shall now get their innings. In Tokyo last week it was considered more than likely that wily Stooge Baba had sold the Army some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Out & Ins | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Monument. Japanese hearkened with approval last week as the great Viscount Shibusawa, "the Morgan of Japan," founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank) of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Line), financier, industrialist, philanthropist, first "businessman" ever to be created a Japanese peer, announced at Tokyo that he will unveil the Harris Monument in the presence of U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Monument of Moment | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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