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Reporting Nov. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Steven DeKosky, dean of the school of medicine at University of Virginia, found that taking 120 mg of gingko biloba twice a day did not prevent the development of dementia in a group of 1,545 seniors 75 years and older; there was no difference in rates of dementia among the intervention group and a similar group of 1,524 participants who took identical placebos. This was the largest and longest investigation into the effects of gingko biloba, and the first study to explore whether a supplement could...
...Nov. 4 I was going into Quincy House to grab a quick lunch when a couple with a sandwich board stopped me at the front gate. “Are you going in to vote?” the woman asked me. I told her I wasn’t American as I rushed past. “What did he say?” her partner asked her. “He doesn’t want to vote,” the woman responded dismissively...
...score each song using nearly 400 factors, which frame them in what Westergren calls the “musical double helix.” Once a user inputs a given song or artist, a mathematical algorithm creates a playlist that orders songs based on their similarity. Pandora launched in Nov. 2005 and has since spread even though the Web site has never advertised. Pandora grew out of Westergren’s years of work as a musician and film composer, during which he also served as a male nanny (or “manny,” as he called...
Sinduhije, along with the 36 other founding members of the Movement for Security and Democracy—a new opposition party sympathetic to both the Hutu and Tutsi citizens who live in the country plagued by civil war and ethnic violence—was arrested on Nov. 3 for criticizing the president in a document found in his home, according to the global organization Human Rights Watch...
...Nov. 18 story, "Sinduhije Held in Burundi," stated that former Shorenstein fellow Alexis Sinduhije was named by Time magazine as one of its 100 most influential people in 1997. In fact, Sinduhije received that honor in 2008. An earlier headline on the story also misspelled his surname...