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...with both the genetic makeup and a family history - showed high levels of activity in the hippocampus, posterior cingulate and regions of the frontal cortex, all areas involved in memory. The control group showed the opposite pattern. Their brains became more excited when they saw unfamiliar names, which included Irma Jacoby, Joyce O'Neil and Virginia Warfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Britney Spears Can Reveal About Alzheimer's | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...roles fully. Calling some First Lady traditions "baggage" diminishes the important work that previous First Ladies have done. Collectively, the First Ladies have made a difference for their country. Perhaps it is time for us to appreciate them for what they are - many different women, all of them remarkable. Irma Eloff, PRETORIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 21st Century First Lady | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...woman needs medical care for her anxious 12-year-old son, who has started wetting his bed. Another needs legal help for her husband, who was arrested during a return visit to Agriprocessors by immigration agents last fall. "I am very sad and worried," says Irma Lopez, 28, a former Agriprocessors worker who remains in limbo with her young daughter while her husband is back in Guatemala, one of many arrested workers deported in October after serving five months in prison. "I worked since I was 8 years old, and now I feel worthless. I can work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iowa: What Happens When a Town Implodes | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

Ninety-two year old Irma Bailey returned to Cambridge—one of her “favorite places in the United States”—for her 28th annual Native American arts and crafts show this weekend. The exhibit drew many returning visitors, as well as some first-time appreciators, to the Peabody Museum. This year’s display, “The Best of the Best,” brought back specially requested pieces from previous shows, including some of Bailey’s finest Southwestern jewelry, baskets, ceramics, and rugs. Bailey, a native...

Author: By Elise A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Native Art Comes to Campus | 10/5/2008 | See Source »

...rebellion in the reader: a suspicion that fanciers of Summer Hours are too eager to surrender an upmarket French domestic version of Disneyland, where the fantasy-memory of one's own youth is spiked by admiration or envy for this privileged clan. But Assayas, best known for the films (Irma Vep and Clean) he made with his once-wife Maggie Cheung, has more on his mind than duplicating House & Garden spread on screen. For at the center of the movie's first act he place the imposing Hélene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Fast Takes from Toronto | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

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