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...really distinguish between Alzheimer's and other dementias until a brain autopsy is performed. At least they couldn't until now. A new, noninvasive brain-imaging test may be able to identify Alzheimer's in those who are still living. The test, a chemical tracer followed by a PET scan, reveals the telltale plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's, even in the disease's earliest stages. A word of caution: the test has so far worked on only nine patients...
...himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed the country's seventh largest company to suddenly go bankrupt in December. "I am incredibly nervous that we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals," Watkins wrote of Enron's financial health. "I have heard one manager...
...Luckily, the business world is not without a sense of karma, and full disclosure does eventually come to those who wait. Enron's debt-concealing, off-the-balance-sheet partnerships (which Enron's pet law firm says were "creative and aggressive" but not illegal) and warped revenue yardsticks eventually brought it down, and now we all know about them. Arthur Andersen's reputation as an honest accountant is now permanently tarred, and it will suffer at Wall Street's hands for devaluing its auditor's seal of approval. (As a consultant, though, you've got to love the way they...
...Wagoner has made it clear that Lutz has the authority to redesign products already in the pipeline, kill pet projects and install his own. So far, this has not posed a threat to top GM executives, for a simple reason. Says David Davis Jr., founding editor of Automobile magazine: "Everyone, including Bob, knows he's not going to be chairman of General Motors...
...Bush Administration would seem to have admirably rebuffed pleas for favors from its most generous business supporter. But it didn't tell that story very effectively-encouraging speculation that it has something to hide. Democrats in Congress, frustrated by Bush's soaring popularity and their own inability to move pet legislation through Congress, smelled a chance to link Bush and his party to the richest tale of greed, self-dealing and political access since junk-bond king Michael Milken was jailed in 1991. That's just what the President, hoping to convert momentum from his war on terrorism...