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...imagine someone turning off the lights one by one. That's what Alzheimer's disease does. It turns off the lights so that the flow of ideas, emotions and memories from one room to the next slows and eventually ceases. And sadly--as anyone who has ever watched a parent, a sibling, a spouse succumb to the spreading darkness knows--there is no way to stop the lights from turning off, no way to switch them back on once they've grown dim. At least...
...California the outcry has been so intense that utility officials recently lowered the price cap on rates that generators can charge on the open market. While that may help ease pricing pressure in the near term, it could easily backfire. Says Stephen Baum, vice chairman of Sempra Energy, parent company of SDG&E: "This would simply create a shortage. Those generators might just sell their energy elsewhere." If that happens, Mike Hawkins and lots of other Californians might not have any electricity bills at all to worry about...
Sometime later, two more early-onset Alzheimer's genes were found, Presenilin-1 and Presenilin-2. Like APP, these genes were dominant; a child who received just one gene from either parent would inevitably get the disease. One of the most tragic examples involved a 4,000-member Colombian family that had been haunted for generations by Alzheimer's. Yet such cases, researchers were only too well aware, accounted for merely a small fraction of all cases of Alzheimer's disease. Still other genes, they reasoned, must be involved in the great majority of cases--those in which dementia does...
...Karen Caplan, 44, president and CEO of Frieda's, a Los Alamitos, Calif., marketer and distributor of exotic fruits with more than $30 million in sales last year. Caplan and her sister Jackie Caplan Wiggins, 42, who is vice president, bought the 38-year-old business from their parents in 1990. Almost half the transfer was paid with a 10-year note, and the rest came through a one-time gifting of $600,000 from each parent after a company valuation. Karen Caplan, who has been working in the business since high school, has 55% ownership, and her sister...
...Draper lacks the common touch, he makes up for it in chutzpah. "I'm a freedom fighter," he says, explaining why he is bankrolling a campaign to pass an initiative that would require the state to offer a $4,000 annual voucher to any parent, rich or poor, to send a child to private school. The measure, which will be on California's November ballot, is likely to spark the most heated and expensive proposition campaign in the U.S., with vigorous opposition from Governor Gray Davis, the California Teachers Association, PTAs and groups such as the California Business Roundtable...