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The first signs are small, puzzling and all too easy to dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife...
Some clues: the culprit (or lucky fellow, depending on how one looks at it) was a member of Britain's '70s Labor government and is still an influential M.P. He is married, has a daughter and is described as being like a "bear," with a shock of dark...
There are no Los Angeles natives, it is said, only immigrants. For the contributors to this week's cover story, the cliché was nearly true: Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate has been there only two years, while Correspondent Steven Holmes transferred from Chicago last year, Alessandra Stanley arrived six...
The author tips his hat to Sir Arthur early on. The name of his medieval detective, William of Baskerville, is an echo of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the 14th century context, William is a Franciscan friar, famed for his formidable powers of deduction. His...
Some experts do not agree I that the Holmes-Rahe scale is the best measure of personal stress. By conducting a series of surveys, Psychologist Richard Lazarus, of the University of California at Berkeley, has become convinced that the everyday annoyances of life, or "hassles," contribute more to illness and...