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Senior Beier Ko has seen it all as a member of the Harvard women’s tennis team. She’s been the eager freshman, sidelined by injury on a team that bulldozed its way to the Ivy League title in 2006. She’s been the veteran on a rebuilding squad that floundered to a 2-17 mark last year. And in 2009, Ko was the leader of an extraordinary story of resurgence. As the undisputed No. 1 player on the Crimson (13-8, 6-1 Ivy), Ko went undefeated in the Ancient Eight...
...description but also watched a two-minute video of an elderly woman with the condition being cared for in a nursing home by her two daughters. "Tell us, Ma, how many daughters do you have?" the children ask. "One? Two? You don't know?" (The entire video can be seen here...
Volandes points out that even though many people have seen portrayals of dementia in movies and TV shows, those images tend to be airbrushed versions of the truth. The video used in the study - which shows two daughters talking to and then feeding their mother - was meant to provide a reality check. Even so, he says, the full "clinical reality" of the condition - such as bladder and bowel incontinence - was withheld. "We wanted it to be honest but not overly emotive or visceral," he says...
...view? It looked to me like the clouds were thousands of feet below. The moon was shining directly on the fluffy clouds. It was like the most clichéd fairyland you've ever seen. The place was full of stars, four times the number you'd see in the Mojave Desert. And some very big mountains looked like little pimples coming through the clouds...
...structure is flawed, so is the content. The Parliament is often seen as a retirement home for washed-up national politicians. Its debates often drift towards a pomposity that is only amplified by translation into 23 official languages. The body's monthly commute from Brussels to Strasbourg, a nonsensical legacy of French pride, merely reinforces suspicions that MEPs spend lots of money to scant effect. (Read: "Brussels Beats Up On Bulgaria...