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...clamor for tacrine, also known as THA (for tetrahydroaminoacridine), started in 1986 when the New England Journal of Medicine reported a study in which 16 of 17 patients given the drug had shown marked improvement. The results seemed miraculous, but they made scientific sense: the brains of Alzheimer's victims have abnormally low levels of acetylcholine, a chemical that carries impulses from one nerve to another. Tacrine inhibits production of an enzyme that breaks down the chemical messenger, thus presumably making more acetylcholine available...
...fear of the "L" word is based upon a wrongful assumption that liberalism is indefensible in American political dialogue. As Marc Pearl, the National Director of Americans for Democratic Action, one of the nation's most prominent liberal organizations, explained in an interview, "We're not about to change tha mentality of the American electorate during this campaign...
...attempting to construct a life vest tha would prevent Navy pilots from becoming hypothermic when their planes land in water, a center spokesman said...
Summers is the only researcher to achieve success so far with this experimental drug, called tetrahydroaminoacrine, or THA. Monjan said the medicine will have to be subjected to large, well-controlled studies before experts can be certain it is truly effective...
Though Self-Help is consistently informed by this ironic tone, Moore deals with a variety of situations and shadings of moods. The first story of the collection and one of the best, "How to Be Other Woman," traces the tha arc of semi-clandestine relationship between a married man a woman: "After four moves, three concerts, and two and a half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events," How and "Amahl and the Night Visitors A Guide to the Tenor of Love" both deal with the slow death of relationships, from the point...