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...screening tool may be extremely useful in prompting high-risk people to start doing whatever they can to protect themselves from future memory loss. "This study has taken a number of earlier findings on risk factors and combined them into a fairly impressive predictor of risk," says Dr. Ralph Nixon, vice chair of the medical and scientific advisory council for the Alzheimer's Association. The new index accurately predicts dementia in 81% of cases. (The midlife tool predicts dementia accurately 78% of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warning Signs: A New Test to Predict Alzheimer's | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...policy in Afghanistan will become more militarily pointed as well as politically deft once McChrystal and Rodriguez, his 1976 West Point classmate and fellow Afghanistan vet, are confirmed by the Senate. "McKiernan did his best - he was just the wrong guy," says retired Army officer and military analyst Ralph Peters. "McChrystal will ask for more authority, not more troops." By the end of this year, the U.S. expects to have close to 70,000 troops in Afghanistan, including 21,000 ordered there by President Barack Obama. While that's just half the 130,000 troops the U.S. maintains in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Pentagon Axed Its Afghanistan Warlord | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...city, which use cinder blocks and old Soviet tank parts for equipment. To many young Afghans, Schwarzenegger embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting and accomplishment. Afghans prefer the U.S. to the Taliban, but they have suffered too long from 40% unemployment and a reconstruction that never arrived. Ralph Lopez, Cambridge, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...crazes in Kabul, and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. To many young Afghans, he embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting and accomplishment. Afghans prefer the U.S. to the Taliban, but they have suffered too long from 40% unemployment and a reconstruction that never arrived. Ralph Lopez, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navigating America's Other War | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

Dorm: Grays / Adams Hometown: Hong Kong / London Relationship status: Single Three words that describe you: Incredibly awesomely shockingly Hottest trait: My perfectly feathered hair Claim to Harvard fame: Mannequins at Ralph Lauren try to dress like me Best part about becoming a sophomore: I’m in Adams Fastest way to your heart: My entryway, Grays East 2012 What you miss most from the ‘90s: Amanda Bynes was All That

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Hottest Freshman 2009: Christophe A. T. Van | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

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