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...these mark the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the insidious and heart-breaking malady of advancing age. The memory lapses, confusion and dementia inevitably get worse. The intelligent and athletic Mrs. Holmes, now 65, forgot how to cook: she set a chicken ablaze by trying to roast it over all four burners of her stove. She also forgot how to play tennis and ultimately she had trouble recognizing her friends. Once an active Y.M.C.A. employee, Tony Marzillo, 61, gradually lost all ability to care for himself, becoming incontinent, unruly and destructive. "It was like chasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow, Steady and Heartbreaking | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beet Specials cost 60. ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches. Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Beating the System | 5/20/1983 | See Source »

...August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours a ..."). Could fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazettes there might not be any Harry Levin...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Beating the System | 5/20/1983 | See Source »

...Land Rovers are the most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week, is still referred to as "the 365," meaning that people roast it and stew it and chew it 365 days a year. One happy result of the war is that the Falklanders decided to start a weekly newspaper, the Penguin News. Another welcome consequence: demand for colorful Falkland Islands stamps (printed in England) has grown so much that the government earned more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: A Melancholy Anniversary | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...field action, the Club has lined up sorority parties at Santa Barbara and the University of California at Los Angeles, and its first West Coast "Pig Roast." The ruggers also cited a visit to Disney land as a necessity to their training program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Club Readies for Westward Trip, Will Play Eastern Tourney Saturday | 3/17/1983 | See Source »

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