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...deeply impressed by the beating his father took in the local papers when the team went downhill. After all, football matters. "There were days when I was a kid when the local columnists would just rip into my father, and I'd just cry," says Ford. "But it also taught me not to believe in your own press, because once you do, the house of cards just falls...
Being a spectator during Firestone taught Ford a lot about the company that Nasser runs, and it tested their relationship. Many of the top vice presidents, most of whom sit on the 11th and 12th floors at headquarters, are new, not guys who grew up in the company. Although Ford and Nasser talk often, Nasser moves so fast that important decisions have been made without Ford's input. Ford has been frustrated at not having more say, although he realizes that he can't be seen to be interfering lest that tip the scales with Nasser, who, an executive says...
...cared for have been gone for 30 years. Sister Ada simply can't keep that straight. In recent years, her brain, like a time machine gone awry, has been wrenching her back and forth between the present and the past, depositing her without warning into the days when she taught primary schoolchildren in Minnesota or to the years when she was a college student in St. Paul. Or to the times when she and the sisters had to feed the pigs several times...
...them to mental decline later? That question remains unanswered--but follow-up studies, to be published next month in the journal Psychology and Aging, suggest that exercising what brain capacity you have offers some protection. While all the sisters show age-related decline in mental function, those who had taught for most of their lives showed more moderate declines than those who had spent most of their lives in service-based tasks. And that, says Kemper, supports the commonsense idea that stimulating the brain with continuous intellectual activity keeps neurons healthy and alive. (Of course, notes Snowdon, these activities...
...know Al Gore--and I taught him when he was here--he has been a model of respect for the son or daughter that is graduating," said Hunt...