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There are even tantalizing hints that those healthful habits may also prevent or delay Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia?although that conclusion is controversial. "I would phrase it differently," says Marilyn Albert, director of the division of cognitive neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. "What the studies have done is to take people who are middle-aged and elderly and look at what maintains good brain health...
...that you have a serious illness. But this time the doctor says, 'You have only 24 hours to live.' What did you miss? Who did you not get to be? What did you not get to do?" The room was silent. After a while, each planner jotted down a phrase...
...scheduling conflicts, they carved the afflicted region into two and tried to cover as much ground separately as they could. They pleaded with Governors and mayors for ideas and then swapped what they heard by phone and e-mail. By mid-September, both men were, in Card's phrase, "very, very hands on, down in the weeds," more excited and enthused than their aides had seen them in months...
JUMP THE COUCH Tom Cruise gave rise to this phrase, denoting the point at which people seem to lose their marbles, when he hopped on Oprah's sofa to declare his love for Katie Holmes...
...constitutionality of the secret executive order on the Sunday morning news circuit—talking about? It’s worth noting that the power of “executive order” is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. Instead, there is a boundless and vague phrase that, not unlike the “necessary and proper” clause taken to mean that Congress can legislate basically anything, leaves it open for debate: “the executive Power,” with a capital ‘P,’ “shall...