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...PURSES ARE OFTEN the chicest choice to complement holiday finery, but most barely have room for a wallet, let alone the supplies to keep you party-pretty all night long. Now cosmetics companies are solving the space crunch with single servings of makeup: disposable beauty supplies small enough to slip into the sleekest bag--or a Christmas stocking...
ALZHEIMER'S One of the most tragic features of this neurological disease is the way patients slip away, slowly losing memory and other brain functions over a span of years. Now there is evidence that the long goodbye of Alzheimer's may begin even earlier than doctors suspected. A Swedish analysis of nearly 50 studies of the condition found that patients who go on to develop Alzheimer's show telltale signs--lapses in memory, reasoning, problem-solving ability, verbal fluency and attention skills--years before the disease is diagnosed. Such symptoms could serve as warning signals, say experts, but doctors...
...halftime score affect how we were playing,” Holsey said. “We just continued to play our game, and started playing well together.” Harvard came out strong in the first half, grabbing an early 11-point lead. That lead, however, would slip away at the end of the first half, as URI would rally to get back into the game. After this burst, the Crimson would take only its one possession lead into the intermission. After the break, Harvard started the second half the way it began the first. The only difference this...
...previous weekend. In that meet, Harvard came out slowly to fall behind Cornell, yet regrouped and dominated the second half to score a close victory. Against Columbia, however, the Crimson jumped out to a commanding lead with wins four of the first five events, only to see it slip away in the second half. “Against Cornell and Dartmouth, we came out flat at the beginning, so this week we wanted to make sure we came out strong,” captain Dave Cromwell said. “We had great momentum at the beginning and a great...
...variability of the evaluations of talent also can create difficulties, as it is common for recruits with high expectations to flop and for true talents to slip almost completely off the radar...