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Anne Nagel, ne Weiss, is almost certainly in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease ("almost," because a definitive diagnosis can be made only after death). The disease probably also afflicts her sister Helen, 88, and her brother David, 94. Her brother Nathan and sister Sylvia, both now dead, also had Alzheimer's. That's half the 10 Weiss siblings suffering the memory loss and cognitive impairment of this terrifying disease...
...Weisses are one such family, which is why Brenda Goldfine, 64, Helen's daughter and Anne's niece, was in Dr. Richard Mayeux's office two weeks ago. The Columbia University neurologist, executive coordinator of the NIA's Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Initiative, quizzed her about her family history. Then he asked whether she had noticed any problems with memory. "I'm not the girl I used to be, that's for certain," she said. "It isn't terrible, but I think I make more mistakes than I used to." She got the day and month wrong when Mayeux asked...
...asked if she had any black sheep in her family. "Don't answer that!" his mother Barbara interjected, trying to avoid embarrassment. This time he's the President, the man in charge. Whatever Bush does, Blair will have to live with it. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington and Helen Gibson/London
Pierce is survived by his wife of 39 years, Helen, his son, David, and his daughter, Dianne...
...defense means parents still can. The U.N. has called for all countries to explicitly ban child corporal punishment. The Supreme Court of Canada recently heard a case that could result in a tightening of the law there. Recent debate on the subject in New Zealand has prompted Prime Minister Helen Clarke to call for a ban on even "reasonable chastisement" of kids. In short, parents should think before they strike...