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...estimates that nearly 800 million people around the world are undernourished. The effects are devastating. About 400 million women of childbearing age are iron deficient, which means their babies are exposed to various birth defects. As many as 100 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of blindness. Tens of millions of people suffer from other major ailments and nutritional deficiencies caused by lack of food...
Giuliani, of course, stands to suffer more politically from this mess - this is the mayor who styles himself as something of an autocrat, who enjoys cracking the whip every once in a while. He's all about law and order. For Pete's sake, he tried to stamp out jaywalking in New York City. So how could this attack take place in his city, on his watch, with the oft-chastened NYPD on the scene...
...stores within a mile of Wired magazine's "Top 40 Wired Colleges" - and those near colleges that have had problems with Napster-induced network overloading - are down 13 percent. The numbers suggest that wherever you put young music lovers together with high-speed Internet access, music sales will suffer...
...MapleRidge, apparently confident that boomers will be filling the apartments in 10 years, the assisted-care quarters in 20, the intensive-care units in 30. About 25% of those latter spaces are being specifically reserved for residents with cognitive disorders. Makes sense: while only 8% of people over 65 suffer from the severe memory loss that characterizes Alzheimer's disease, the number leaps to a range of 30% to 47% for those over 85, and we all know that we're going to live longer than our parents. Boomer watcher Dychtwald, in his list of 10 physical, social, spiritual, economic...
While all those conditions can spell big trouble, the fact remains that the majority of folks probably suffer from none of them. In most cases, it's possible to hang on to the memory you've got well beyond middle age--and perhaps even improve it a bit. "Having a good memory is often just a matter of practicing memory wellness," says clinical psychologist Cynthia Green, author of the book Total Memory Workout...