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...whom roughly a quarter have dementia - are expected to comprise 2% of the population, twice the present figure. But the problem isn't simply that there'll be more oldies. A recent report by British researchers suggests that, compared to 30 years ago, brain diseases such as Alzheimer's strike a higher proportion of people in developed countries, a trend attributed to worsening pollution and greater exposure to harmful chemicals...
...absolutely essential that ... we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again." DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, campaigning in Iowa, implying that a vote for John Kerry would make another terrorist strike more likely...
...year history of Japanese professional baseball, the word "strike" has meant only one thing?and it wasn't a labor walkout. Japanese players are loyal company men first, superstars second, and even in a reform-minded era, baseball is a time capsule of old-fashioned hierarchy. So when players threatened a strike (albeit only on weekend games) last week to protest a plan to combine the two professional leagues and merge the debt-strapped Kintetsu Buffaloes into the Orix BlueWave, it was clear that something was very wrong...
...stopgap deal agreed to by owners last Friday aims to keep the two leagues separate for a year and delays the team merger, thereby averting a strike for at least another week. But few deny that Japanese baseball is ailing. Most teams, which exist primarily to advertise their corporate owners' name, are losing money, and fans are being drawn away by other sports, like football. Television ratings of the nation's top team, the Yomiuri Giants, have dropped 38% in the past five years, and the league's best players have defected to the U.S. Owners say austerity measures such...
...players and owners can't find common ground by Friday, the strike could still go ahead. But there is hope on the horizon for Japanese baseball: last week's compromise also eased long-standing restrictions on the creation of new teams. That may open the door for 31-year-old Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie, who says he wants to reform Japanese baseball but saw a previous bid for the Buffaloes spurned. If the current showdown succeeds in opening the door for him and others, it could mark the start of a turnaround for Japan's favorite sport...