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Reports about the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease seem almost as inexorable as the illness. Each new survey appears to uncover a higher incidence of this wasting affliction of the mind. One reason is the difficulty of diagnosis. Since there is no perfect test for the disease -- except upon autopsy -- doctors' estimates of who does or does not have it must rely on subjective assessments. As these methods improve, the number of people with the disease appears to increase...
...perhaps the most authoritative survey to date, scientists say Alzheimer's may be up to twice as common as was previously thought. A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that as many as one in ten people over 65 and, astonishingly, nearly half of those over 85 may have the disease. That would raise the number of Americans thought to be afflicted from 2.5 million to 4 million. "I was astounded," said Dr. Eric Larson of the University of Washington, who wrote an accompanying editorial. "Still, as with any startling finding, it needs...
...participation is very high" (The Harvard Crimson, 11/15). Although intended as an indicator of house homogeneity, this statement, in a uniquely inane manner, merely acknowledges the rigorous time demands of athletics at Harvard. The vacuity of this "discovery" reflects the humorously ineffectual manner of publication of the recent house survey. Although the survey did not name the houses, the published results...
Dean Jewett apparently published the diversity data anonymously in order not to perpetuate house stereotypes, while still preserving the educational integrity of the survey. Yet the survey, in its anonymous form or not, indicates that these stereotypes are no longer caricatures but facts. For the reader, the numbers themselves rendered the caricatures real and the houses obvious. Dean Jewett's omission of house identities is a fleeting salve on the painful reality which his own results have made plain. This method is self-defeating. Craig Katz '91 Steven Kawut...
...another recently published anthology, Gay Priests (Harper & Row; $17.95), University of Kentucky researcher James G. Wolf reports the results of a survey conducted among a loose network of homosexual clergy who sent the questionnaires to one another. The 101 respondents, obviously not a representative sample, typically estimated the extent of clerical homosexuality at 40% to 60%. Though those numbers are of little scientific value, the participating priests offered interesting revelations on their own views. Only one of them said he had abstained entirely from sex once he became a priest; 37% reported their sexual activity to be frequent since ordination...