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...risk of developing Alzheimer's as their married counterparts. But what was unexpected was the finding that the reason for a person's singlehood impacts his or her risk. Compared with other singletons, people who were single as a result of divorce or widowing had a three times and six times greater risk, respectively. "This was quite unexpected," says Krister Hakansson, who led the study and is a lecturer in psychology and a Ph.D. candidate at Vaxjo University and the Karolinska Institute. "We established the association, but when it comes to explaining it, we can only speculate at this state...
...just a few years, Edmund Ho turned the city around. He cracked down on crime and, more importantly, he introduced competition to the gaming market by issuing new casino licenses in 2002. Today there are six gaming operators. Eager to tap the burgeoning wealth of a rising China, some of the biggest names in gambling, including Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Mirage, came charging into Macau, and the economy roared. Ho was fêted as a miracle worker...
...have a completely extraordinary situation post-2002 in Gujarat," says Harsh Mander, a former civil-service officer who works with victims of the riots. Other spasms of sectarian violence in India have been followed by "some kind of healing process," he says, with official remorse and legal action. But six years after the Gujarat riots, only a handful of cases have led to convictions. The Indian Supreme Court forced the state's government in 2004 to reopen nearly 2,000 cases that had been thrown out for lack of evidence. Mander adds, "We have reduced an entire population to second...
This summer, part of the fund is being used to provide stipends to six Harvard undergraduates to provide six hours of individual tutoring per week to Allston-Brighton students...
...This song for a land in distress, with lyrics by the poet Abdel Rahim Mansour, comes from the 1982 film An Egyptian Story. It might have been the personal anthem of the movie's writer-director, Youssef Chahine, who died Sunday at 82, six weeks after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. His passing ended a busy, exemplary career that spanned nearly six decades making movies, myths and trouble...