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...evidence suggesting that certain areas of the diabetic brain - such as the amygdala, which processes emotions, and the hippocampus, which is related to memory - are smaller than normal, a difference that may affect learning and recall of information. Early studies have even suggested that these physical differences may also predict Alzheimer's disease. While Dixon's study did not find a difference between the diabetes patients and controls on memory skills, Jacobson says the connection between the two diseases is an area of intense research...
...flashbulbs, a darkening storm hangs over the nation. The national and global economies continue to deteriorate at a terrifying pace. The ISM Manufacturing Index, a key measurement of domestic production, hit a 28-year low in December. Payrolls fell an additional half million last month, leading economists to predict that the total job losses in 2008 were greater than at any point since the immediate aftermath of World War II. The housing-price free fall has yet to show any clear sign of stabilization...
Researchers predict the region's economic recovery will last at least seven years - far beyond the expected end of the national recession sometime in 2010. Even so, there will be some downward pull from the U.S. economic slump. In 2009, for instance, they expect some 8,000 jobs to be added here, a figure that will drop to 6,500 jobs in 2010. "While the rest of the United States is in a deeper recession than anyone expected, we're certainly in a better place - we are an economy that's still looking for workers," says Janet Speyrer, associate dean...
Satoru Ogasawara, economist for Credit Suisse in Tokyo who covers foreign exchange, expects the yen to advance to 85 to the dollar within three months and to 83 over the next year. Intervention, he says, will come at the 85-level, but even then it is difficult to predict what will happen. "What we're seeing is the unwinding of the yen carry trade," says JPMorgan Chase's Sasaki, referring to the practice of buying low-interest yen and investing it in high-yield currencies. "It's a very strong and powerful movement and it's difficult to stop...
...Lawyers predict lawsuits against the other accounting firms will soon follow. "The fact that they didn't catch the fraud leads me to believe that they blew it," says Scott Berman, a lawyer at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman who has reached settlements with auditors in similar cases in the past. "I am going to look hard at whether there is liability there...