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...symptoms are dramatic enough: the initial forgetting of small things such as house keys and dates, followed by deepening confusion, hostility and depression. Then the long, slow slide back into childlike dependence, until the victim can no longer sit up, speak or go to the toilet. Yet even then, when family and friends have suffered the heartbreaking deterioration of a loved one, it is still impossible to name the slow killer with absolute certainty. Only after the patient has died and an autopsy is done can the core of the brain be examined for the telltale dead nerve cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Test for Alzheimer's? | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Students at Iowa State University are putting the squeeze on administrators, who say they're really a soft touch when it comes to toilet paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...tissue issue arose last week, when some dormitory residents complained the toilet paper was too rough and demanded a better product...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...toilet paper tug-of-war at the Ames campus, about 30 miles north of Des Moines, has gotten national attention, and Collier said in a telephone interview that her phone hadn't stopped ringing since the story broke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...limits his exercise to walking. His wife, in contrast, is ferociously athletic. Five times a week, though less in winter, she plays singles tennis. Every morning she rises at 5 a.m. and makes the family breakfast. After posting the menu matter-of-factly on the inside of the toilet lid, she heads out for a 3 1/2-mile run or ten-mile bike ride; in the evening she takes a half-mile swim. She cherishes those hours as "private time." Still, she interrupts her running when she sees people stretching incorrectly, bellowing "Don't bounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: See Jane Run (and Do Likewise) | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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