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...item on Alzheimer's, welcome as it was, speaks of patients. But attention must also be paid to the sole at-home caregiver--wife, daughter, husband, son--who copes with years of unceasing care for a loved one, as witness to a kind of death in slow motion. We need to better understand the impact of the relentless pressure on the health of those who attend to Alzheimer's patients. That should be the subject of serious ongoing research. What is certain is that as people live longer, Alzheimer's will increasingly dominate our lives. KEITH GLEGG L'Orignal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 26, 2005 | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...then again, one mustnā€™t forget that those Puritans were of a hardy stock.) ā€œSceneā€ women are also phenomenally well-versed in sexual lubricant. Who knew that K-Y Jelly is actually gauche? Apparently itā€™s much like wearing an item from the Mary Kate and Ashley line to the Oscars. These are social niceties that the average Harvard female, desperate to talk to a man without a facial deformity, can only imagine.The magazineā€™s mission statement states that the content of the magazine ā€œis representative...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shut Up About ā€˜Scene,ā€™ Will You? | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Shadowy Cells Your notebook item "Outing Secret Jails" [Nov. 14] said the Washington Post reported that the CIA has held captured al-Qaeda members in covert detention centers in several East European countries as well as in Thailand, Afghanistan and Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. Holding prisoners in secret and denying them recourse to judicial hearings in a timely fashion are more than appalling. The Bush Administration seems not to understand that if you want to "export" democracy, you need to act like a democracy, not a totalitarian state. Say all you want about the ends justifying the means, the reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...pajamaā€ part is reflected more what the students wear rather than what the dining hall serves. Either way, HUDS did focus on the one thing that matters most: the food. All in the same brunch, HUDS seemed to add special touches to almost every regular breakfast item. The bagel and lox had flavored cream cheese; the omelets were made at a very prominent omelet bar where we could pick and choose our own ingredients; the waffles, now decorated with the ornate ā€œVe-ri-tasā€ crest, had special toppings; and the French toast...

Author: By Ashish Agrawal, | Title: A Birthday Angel? | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...hopeless.ā€* * *Donato had sworn to himself that if he ever made it to Contestantsā€™ Row, he wouldnā€™t one-dollar-up anybody. He just wasnā€™t a one-dollar-up kind of guy. But in his second crack at The Item Up For Bid, a set of lamps and some eye drops, he is one-dollar-upped by contestant Elizabeth, who goes on to play for a new white Cadillac.Donato glares at her for an instant, then drops his head and claps. There is still time, he tells himself?...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE PRICE IS WRONG, EDWARD | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

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