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...start of the analysis, but after two years of follow-up, researchers found that those who exercised at least three times a week were half as likely to have developed dementia, compared with the people who reported no physical activity. Based on his results, says lead author Dr. Thorleif Etgen, a professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at München University, "it doesn't make a big difference if you have moderate or high physical activity. The important message is that you do any activity. And even if you start late in life, at 60 or 70, there...
...officials of Austria's National Bank were looking for ideas on how to decorate a new issue of 50-schilling notes. They finally decided to use a picture of a sturdy little boy named Thorleif Capri, whose blond-curls and cherubic features seemed just the thing to symbolize the pure integrity of Austrian credit. Thorleif's likeness is still on the notes...
Last week Austria's officials were again interested in Thorleif's features. As a grownup, onetime Cherub Capri had been appointed fund raiser for Austria's Orphans' Aid Society. He had got his hands as well as his face on 37,000 schillings' worth of banknotes and quietly absconded...
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