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Formula One is all about twists and turns on the track. But now it's the offtrack maneuvers that are revving up drama. Talks in London among the teams and authorities in motor sport's blue-ribbon championship ended without agreement Friday, failing to settle an ugly row over plans by the FIA, Formula One's governing body, to impose a voluntary $60 million budget cap on teams next year. Those who accept it will then have greater technical freedom to upgrade their cars beyond the current tight bounds...
...study analyzing heart disease and cognition. Researchers recorded which of the patients developed dementia in the six-year study period, then isolated the risk factors that appeared to make dementia more likely. Many factors were considered: age, genetic risk factors, mental health status, depression, physical fitness, alcohol consumption, fine motor skills and social support. In the end, only a handful of factors, arranged on a 15-point scale, emerged as being highly predictive of dementia...
...some of the elements in the index were more surprising. The research team found, for instance, that patients who were underweight, did not drink alcohol and took longer to put on and button a shirt were also at high risk for dementia. Barnes speculates that fine motor skills, such as those required to button a shirt, may be one of the first things to suffer as neural connections in the brain succumb to dementia. As for the alcohol connection, she suggests that people who drink alcohol may simply be healthier overall and therefore less vulnerable than others to mental decline...
...Limbaughland? Laid off school teachers, nurses, firemen, and policemen, overcrowded emergency rooms, courts that don’t function, motor vehicle offices that are open three days a week. Are these the images that will warm the hearts of the anti-tax Republicans? Probably not, and they certainly won’t increase the prospects of a Republican resurgence any time soon...
...problem epidemic in Hawaii? Sounds like it. In 2007, there were 1,369,150 cases of larceny from motor vehicles in the entire U.S., according to the Department of Justice. That's about one break-in for every 224 people. In Honolulu, however, the rate is roughly one break-in for every 85 people...