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These books are hard to read, no question, just as they must have been hard to write, but they are more than just dutiful filial exercises or neurological horror stories. They have pleasures to offer--watching the weave of a mind unpicked, thread by thread, makes the act of reading itself, of stringing words together and turning them into sense, feel like a fresh miracle. Doctors estimate that by 2020 the number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer's will have increased to 14 million. "People aren't prepared for what is coming," Cohen warns us. "An army of the forgetful...
...They have a lot of big guns up front,” Ruggiero said yesterday. “They like to thread the pass, and they like to take it up themselves. We’re a solid team when we play defense and that’s what we’re going to do tomorrow. We want to play solid defense and the goals will come. We have the offensive firepower...
...House intellectual community in their inboxes will likely be disappointed. Only a small fraction of the postings to these lists—14 percent in Quincy, 18 percent in Cabot—were comprised of five or more e-mails on the same topic. Within these “threads,” real discussion and debate are possible. But the topics that attract the most attention on House lists tend to be the most humorous. In February, the longest thread on Cabot-Open was 26 posts with the subject “odd goings-on in the F entry...
...running commentary on Joe Millionaire, House life and other people’s serious—and humorous—posts. Discussions on House lists are often dominated by a self-selecting group of active participants. On Cabot-Open, 60 percent of the list’s 141 February thread e-mails were composed by only 19 people. Both lists had a person who posted 21 times during February—or three out of every four days. (These did not include the lists’ “Black History Fact” providers, who posted once...
...improbable comedy. (Daniel's parents are remote Wasps who drop by one day to tell him they are leaving all their money to a local raptor-preservation society.) And in the unraveling fabric of his life, Daniel's blindness to his own predicaments is a lightly stitched comic thread. He's an intelligent man, but in matters of the heart, he has a muscular stupidity that gives him the strength...