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...Bluethmann adds that low-tech activities offer another "hidden" benefit: helping spouses and relatives who care for Alzheimer's patients. Often, caregivers describe the distress and frustration that result from watching a disease slowly rob them of their loved ones as unbearable. They say any reprieve is a godsend. In Newbury, as the group shuffled out after two hours of singing, I asked one man whether he had enjoyed himself. "I liked it very much," he responded. His wife gasped. "He said five words," she said, placing her hand tenderly on his arm, and peering hopefully into his eyes...
...time when it is least likely to have an effect. The U.S., as it continues to engage, faces the danger of becoming part of the furniture if George Mitchell begins making monthly visits during a period of minimal possibility for progress. "One or two listening tours will do," says Rob Malley of the International Crisis Group, "But at a certain point it will become better not to go than to go." Indeed, it may be better to hope a resting Middle East peace process can be resurrected in the future than to insist on creating the appearance of life when...
...protesters are having none of it, saying they're on the streets because soldiers rape, rob and murder civilians and have not made the streets any safer from the wrath of gangsters. Whatever the true motive or motives behind the protests, however, the daily images of barricades and baton charges are raising fears that the drug war could combine with social unrest to further imperil Mexico's increasingly precarious security situation...
Some things were unavailable--quit being stingy with the Top Chef, Bravo!--but what I lost in choice I made up for in serendipity. I downloaded video podcasts from Cook's Illustrated, watched Rob Corddry's Web comedy Children's Hospital and rediscovered the cult comedy Strangers with Candy (with a pre--Daily Show Stephen Colbert) because it turned up randomly through the Joost app on my iPhone...
...effect, labor and credit costs, along with the costs of the parts needed to keep Detroit running, will rob the U.S. car companies of any chance at all that they can take advantages of a better market when it returns. The auto firms are in the process of completely undermining their future, and may end up destroying themselves in order to remain in business...