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...great deal can be done to improve the quality of life for AD patients and their families, according to Johns Hopkins Gerontologist Nancy Mace. She is co-author with Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Peter Rabins of The Thirty-Six Hour Day, a tellingly titled book on the grueling aspects of caring for the victims. Most important, she explains, is to "simplify the sensory information the patient is getting." Mace suggests discussing only one topic at a time, not confusing patients with too many choices, posting instructions on how to use household appliances and encouraging the individual to make lists and written...
...opposing an ROTC presence at Harvard. But student frustration mounted as the Corporation took its time responding. In April 1969, approximately 400 students took over University Hall, ejecting several deans and administrators. They held the building for more than 24 hours, until 200 police, using billy clubs, tear gas, mace and physical force drove them from the hall at the insistance of then President Nathan M. Pusey. The students had agreed to peacefully resist any police action taken, but several were beaten unconscious...
...continues to rage over the closed meetings of several Undergraduate Council committees. Council chairman Michael G. Colantuono '83 reverses his earlier opposition to the closed sessions and announces that full Council meetings will now not only be shut to the public, but protected by armed guards prepared to use Mace on intruders...
...Pretty, dark-haired Stephanie Riethmiller and her roommate, Patty Thiemann, both 20, were walking home to their apartment in a Cincinnati suburb one evening last October when two young men stopped them, ostensibly to ask directions. Suddenly, the men grabbed Riethmiller and dragged her to a waiting van, squirting Mace in Thiemann's face to prevent her from following. As the van sped off, the terrified Riethmiller discovered that her father William was among her kidnapers. He recalls: "Stephanie looked up and I said, 'Hi, Stephanie.' And she said, 'Hi, Dad.' I said, 'Everything...
...response to the break-up of a noisy Boston University (BU) block party last weekend that ended with Boston police using night sticks and mace to arrest 50 students, the city has revoked a permit issued in March to a BU social organization for a May 1 block party...