Word: nia
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...been linked to late-onset Alzheimer's--and last week several new mutations on a gene associated with the much rarer early-onset Alzheimer's were tentatively identified, but it's clear that there are more genes to be found. That's why the National Institute on Aging (NIA) began last fall to recruit families with multiple Alzheimer's victims, scanning their DNA to see how the genes of the healthy differ from those of the sick...
...Weisses are one such family, which is why Brenda Goldfine, 64, Helen's daughter and Anne's niece, was in Dr. Richard Mayeux's office two weeks ago. The Columbia University neurologist, executive coordinator of the NIA's Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Initiative, quizzed her about her family history. Then he asked whether she had noticed any problems with memory. "I'm not the girl I used to be, that's for certain," she said. "It isn't terrible, but I think I make more mistakes than I used to." She got the day and month wrong when Mayeux asked...
...garage rock was hailed as the year’s musical revelation by every two-bit rag on the record store shelves. Entertainment Weekly selected the movement as one of its “Entertainers of the Year,” on a shortlist that also included Nia Vardalos and Kelly Clarkson. The magazine cheerfully proclaimed, “Rock was clawing its way up from underground to infiltrate the mainstream in a way not seen since grunge’s glory days...
...Corbett replacement for the husband, Steven Eckholdt (who played the part in the original pilot), even has a new name, Thomas instead of Ian. Vardalos has also changed her character's name from Toula to Nia, partly to help brand herself but also to update the character to the calmer, more mature person she has become. "Toula was a little more repressed," she says. "Toula worked in my shier stage of life. But Nia is who I am. Toula was sweet and wry. Nia is wry, sweet and smart-alecky." (After you pass $200 million, no one stops you from...
...want is no jokes. I don't want lines like 'Good morning, honey.' 'Not in that shirt it's not!'" The show, however, is still very much a sitcom, with a lot of jokes. At a rehearsal for an upcoming episode, Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula walks in on Nia and her husband kissing in the kitchen and says, "Oh, I'm sorry. You're having sex. I'll come back in four minutes." Another scene, which disses Voula's baklava, has Nia calling it "mocklava." Solid jokes, but jokes nonetheless...