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...dementia patients join hands and begin singing in unison - a tentative rendition of Amazing Grace. They remember most of the words and their chorus fills the hall. Montgomery-Smith is certain that the music helps bring her patients' thoughts - ravaged by dissonance and dislocation - into harmony. (Read how secondhand smoke has been linked to dementia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advances for Alzheimer's, Outside the Lab | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Secondhand stores that carry big-ticket items other than clothing are seeing increases in sales as well. Boomerang’s in Jamaica Plain, a nonprofit owned and operated by Aids Action Committee, has been doing brisk business in furniture...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shops Offer Clothes That Fit Consumers’ Wallets | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...recently noticed a lot more of what you call a ‘middle class shopper,’” Craft said. “Someone who hasn’t shopped secondhand in the past, [like] people seeking the antique speakers or parents who are trying to get kids clothes...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shops Offer Clothes That Fit Consumers’ Wallets | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...buying secondhand isn’t really a new phenomenon. For Marlene S. Clauss, owner of the vintage shop Great Eastern Trading Company in Central Square, the customers have been coming in since the late 60’s when the store first opened. Clauss started working there in 1973 when the seventies were not yet a throwback...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shops Offer Clothes That Fit Consumers’ Wallets | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...believe in reusing clothes, allowing the life of objects to pass through many people,” Elizabeth A. Parr said while browsing coats at Second Time Around’s Harvard Square location. Parr said she shops secondhand “in good times...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shops Offer Clothes That Fit Consumers’ Wallets | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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