Word: sisterly
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Smith is survived by his wife, Sherley Goodwin Smith; two daughters, Julia Smith Nelligan and Allison Lloyd Smith; a son, Geoffrey; a sister, Suzanne Smith Mann; and three grandchildren...
Gradually Snowdon and his colleagues began to understand that Sister Mary was not unique. Out of a group of 61 deceased nuns whose brains showed clear signs of Alzheimer's disease, a large fraction, 19 in all, seemed to have escaped the confusion and memory loss that make this form of dementia so devastating. The reason? As Snowdon and his team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, these nuns, unlike their counter-parts whose symptoms were severe, had not suffered from strokes--particularly the small strokes so commonplace in the elderly. Only...
...question. Would the nuns be willing to do more than take psychological tests and give blood samples? he wondered. Would they be willing to donate their brains? Like a politician campaigning for votes, Snowdon traveled from one convent to the next, making his pitch. In Baltimore, Maryland, he remembers, Sister Mary was the first to endorse the project. "Sign me up!" she said. In the end, 678 nuns who were 75 or older enlisted. To them, participating in the study seemed an extension of their mission to care for the sick and the poor. "A person with Alzheimer's disease...
...calling attention to the unhealthy synergy between Alzheimer's and stroke, the School Sisters of Notre Dame have performed an enormous service. But they're not yet finished with their work. Long-term epidemiological studies, like fine wines, improve with age, and thus new findings from the Nun Study can be expected to enrich medical knowledge for many years to come. Indeed, long after he and his colleagues retire, Snowdon imagines, nuns like Sister Mary will continue to enlighten Alzheimer's researchers. This, of course, is the point. "These women were teachers all their lives," says Snowdon, "and now they...
Saints don't often retire. But MOTHER TERESA, the woman whom many revere as one, is 86. So, it has fallen on the frail-looking shoulders of SISTER NIRMALA, 70, a high-caste Hindu convert to Catholicism, to take over the Missionaries of Charity. Sister Nirmala joined the order at 23, after witnessing the horrors of the partition of India and Pakistan. "It was inspiration at first sight," she says of Mother Teresa's work. "Here was someone who could bring some compassion and a sense of destiny to the people." Sister Nirmala was elected by 123 sisters...