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They found that patients with high levels of cotinine were 44% more likely to show signs of cognitive impairment than those with very low levels. There was also "an exposure-response gradient" between cotinine concentration and poor mental performance: the more cotinine in a subject's saliva, the worse that subject performed on tests measuring mental agility, memory and clear thinking. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...advance Van Damme’s character and dissect the fame that is slowly slipping away from him. The film opens with Van Damme in mid-scene on the set of a low budget action film. He gets into it with the foreign director over an issue with the poor quality of the set, to which the director replies, “He still thinks we’re making Citizen Kane.” As the movie unfolds we begin to see Van Damme’s difficulty getting roles (“They gave it to Steven Seagal...
...Allen uses folksy strings and an accordion, along with a handclap slowly building in tempo, to drill her message of rejection into the clueless head of an unwanted suitor. At the same time, though, she cleverly unravels admissions of ways in which she’s led the poor guy on, making her repeated question “How on earth could I be any more obvious?” an ironic one. The song mocks immaturity on several levels and comes off as one of the strongest on the album.Allen’s confrontational candor makes several appearances...
...newly prosperous, post-Nazi-beating America. Nor will accounting for multiple misguided wars be as sexy as the race to send a man to the Moon. Previous generations were certainly faced with their own adversities, but historically, the youth consensus has been that the troubles were the result of poor leadership or malicious enemies abroad. President Obama has declared that the wars and troubles we face are in fact all of our wars and troubles, marking a new era in which Americans may not feel as free from the burden of responsibility for the state of the nation as they...
That walk is strewn with trash - stinking tangles of plastic and organic matter and decaying animal carcasses fester on sidewalks. Until recently, the Basrawis' focus was on security. Since autumn, private polling undertaken by the British government has seen the poor state of public services and infrastructure leapfrog that concern; phone-in programs on the local Al-Mirbad radio station are dominated by discussions of sewage and the electrical brownouts that hit the city several times every...