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This is the hardest kind of story for me to write. It's about a real advance in basic research on Alzheimer's. I know all too well that there are millions of people desperate for news of a treatment or a cure for this terrible disease. I also know that it can take five years or more for basic research--which is to say, experiments performed in test tubes or on laboratory animals--to be turned into safe and effective drugs. And that's only if there are no major setbacks or surprises. More often than not, these...
Giving up its symbols is just about the hardest thing for a nationalist movement to do, and the quintessential symbol of Irish republicanism is the assault rifle. That is at the heart of the tricky situation facing British and Irish leaders, who, with a Wednesday deadline looming, on Tuesday entered a second day of make-or-break crisis talks on Northern Ireland?s future. "We?ve got to know that the gun will be taken out of Northern Irish politics," said Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair. "People will neither understand nor forgive if we don?t make this thing...
...last Mrs. Burton. Elizabeth nonetheless received the most condolences. Today she says Richard was "one of the two great loves of my life." The other was Mike Todd, who died in a plane crash. But most of her friends know that Burton was the man she fought hardest to keep--and the man she would probably have tried to win back again had he lived...
...corner table in the House of Blues last month, University General Counsel Anne Taylor and Harvard Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley reflected on one of their hardest days at Harvard...
...herself. But while that is a necessary skill on the playground and in the rest of life, serious sexual harassment usually cannot be handled by a child acting alone. If your daughter tells you she is being sexually bullied, first of all believe her. She has already done the hardest thing by coming to you. Go to the school and discuss the matter with your child's teachers and administrators, and follow up in writing...