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...study may not be familiar to most people outside of élite neurology circles, but to dementia researchers, it's a gold mine. The long-term data on more than 600 nuns from Minnesota has revealed a great many insights about the effects of aging and the development of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. And yet it was not in the Nun study's core data that its director, Dr. David Snowdon, first discovered a fascinating correlation between the sisters' language skills, based on essays they had written in their 20s when they first entered the convent (Snowdon discovered...
...that being governor right now was getting in the way of being President one day in the future. But her champions note that she is now in a position to earn as much money in two weeks of speechmaking as she would have earned in the rest of her term. She has a following as ardent as that of any modern leader - whom she will now be more conveniently positioned to lead. In this view, she didn't leave the governor's office because it was too demanding but because it was too small...
...alcohol-governing rules that remain on the books, some of the most extreme are known as "blue laws," which outlaw certain "secular" activities on Sunday (like enjoying a pint of ale). The term, according to some historians, comes from the color of the paper used to print the first decrees, in New Haven, Conn. Others believe it refers to blue's use as an 18th century slang term for "rigidly moral." If you were a settler in the 1700s, Sunday was a day to rest and honor the Sabbath, nothing less and (definitely) nothing more. It wasn't just alcoholic...
...clear idea that when you respond, you are going to create collateral damage. He's going to blame that on you. Even if you kill the insurgent there - and in many cases you don't, you just destroy a lot of things - you get a tactical success and near-term satisfaction because you went after the fly with the sledgehammer. What happens is, you have made the insurgency wider. You are going to run into more IEDs (improvised explosive devices), you are going to run into more insurgents, you are going to run into a more difficult place...
...parts. Right now the army is authorized to 134 [thousand]. I think that is too small. A country of this size is simply going to have a police-and-army component that is going to have to reach into all areas and also protect their sovereignty. In the near term I think there is less of a threat of conventional things, so I think we are going to have to increase both the army and the police above what is currently allotted...