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...them exhibit the memory loss and confusion that typically characterize these disorders. In fact, the number of such patients may be greater than researchers first thought. In a November 2008 study, a team of scientists used a new positron emission tomography (PET) brain-imaging technique developed by Drs. William Klunk and Chester Mathis of the University of Pittsburgh to image the brains of live patients - a leap forward in a field that long had to rely on postmortem analyses of brain tissue to confirm diagnoses after the fact - and showed that some 21% of patients with physical signs of dementia...
...Corey Small was already facing up to the responsibilities that come with being an adult. He had opened an account at his local bank and regularly deposited money for the college education of his son Jayden Klunk, 3. The third of eight children, Small saw his son every other weekend. But to further his own education and, he hoped, earn more money to support Jayden, Small enrolled in the Army in 2001. He and his wife Amanda, at right, were posted to Fort Polk, La., which meant that he would see a lot less of Jayden. Then in April...
...played the klunk as Colonel Klink, the inept P.O.W. camp commander in TV's forever rerunning Hogan's Heroes. Away from reel life, Werner Klemperer is anything but a Dummkopf. This week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Klemperer is definitely out of Luftwaffe uniform and appears in turban and robe as Turkish Pasha Selim, a nonsinging role in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder...
Though not mentioning any villains by name, Eire's fierce old (75) poet-playwright Lord Dunsany reared up before a group of London authors and ground modern poets under his hobnailed heel: "They are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously, but usually they just 'klunk.' " Then he took aim at modern verse containing sexy lines: "If this is poetry, then there is plenty of it on the walls of the public lavatories of England which is quite as good...
...causes. Her sound-effects men developed some wonderful sizzling and steaming noises when boiling oil was poured over Ali Baba's 40 thieves hiding in jars. Bluebeard gets his just deserts, too, but only by implication: "The kids are tickled to death when Bluebeard's sword falls, klunk, closely followed by the thud of Bluebeard hitting the ground for the last time. They get the idea, but not the horror...