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...Alzheimer's disease is a complex pathologic process, and that is daunting," says Dr. Ronald Petersen, chair of the Alzheimer's Association's medical and scientific advisory council and director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. "But now we are beginning to segregate out different therapeutic targets and develop drugs that have an impact on each target, so in combination they may handle the disease better than any single approach...
...tests to identify Alzheimer's patients sooner - before too much deterioration occurs in the brain. Better screens could also potentially identify patients by the specific type of brain buildup - plaques vs. tangles - that is causing them the most severe problems. That kind of triage early on could help doctors target the right patients with the most effective therapies...
...coordinated series of bomb blasts rocked Ahmedabad, an elegant, ancient city in the western state of Gujarat. Coming just a day after eight blasts hit Bangalore, the center of India's thriving technology industry, the attack seemed, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during a visit to Ahmedabad, to target India's cosmopolitan, secular social fabric. The whole country seemed to sense the threat, as India's major cities immediately set up checkpoints and metal detectors. At least 17 more unexploded bombs were defused on July 29 in Surat, a global diamond hub halfway between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The possibility...
...intensely local. It wants the release of members of the Students' Islamic Movement of India, who are suspects in earlier bomb blasts. It criticizes a lawyers' group in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh for failing to take cases brought by Muslims. And it warns that it will target states where the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in power...
...getting away with a getaway: politicians should appear slightly superior to their target voters, says Barker, but not remote or filthy rich. "You mustn't be too ordinary," he says. "Go to Southwold, but don't queue for fish and chips like everyone else. That cultivation of distance and similarity at the same time, that's the difficult trick." And above all, don't have too much fun. According to a recent survey for British tour operator Thomas Cook, two-thirds of Britons feel jealous about other people's holidays. Taking a break from politics is one thing, says Barker...