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GLOWING GRAY MATTER Having the Alzheimer's gene takes its toll--even when the memory is still intact. A special MRI shows that asymptomatic folks who are at genetic risk for Alzheimer's work harder to answer easy mental tests than other people. How can doctors tell? On the MRI, the area of the brain responsible for thinking lights up more than other areas. The tool may one day be used as a kind of mental stress test to detect Alzheimer's earlier, much as a treadmill tests for heart disease today...
...change in the balance of power can be seen in the most fundamental ways, starting with the commute. Most mornings on the Dulles Toll Road, traffic leaving the federal district has begun to rival that of old-fashioned commuters heading downtown. In the past year alone, commuters admit, the drive time has increased 50%. Traffic is so bad that the Washington region ranks second only to Los Angeles in severity of snarls. The area is short on roads, bridges, ramps--everything but cars. Local police have begun to complain that well-heeled commuters blithely invade high-occupancy-vehicle lanes...
...Leesburg Municipal Airport in Loudoun County has become one of the best-performing sales points in the nation. Last year Mark Peters nearly doubled his quota and sold 40 planes. "There are a lot of prosperous so-called geeks out there who want to fly," says Peters. "The Dulles Toll Road should be called the Yellow Brick Road--and the yellow is gold...
...learned how many dangerous chemicals called free radicals are released in the skin when a person smokes or spends too much time in the sun. Now they estimate that as much as 90% of the signs of premature aging are due to just these sorts of environmental triggers. The toll is greatest among Caucasians, who seem most vulnerable to the effects of "photoaging...
...actually giving herself a weak chemical peel--in her case with lactic acid. Nowadays she would have plenty of company in that tub. Jayne Singer, 46, a special-ed teacher, found that the stresses of her job helping inner-city Los Angeles teens were taking a toll on her face. She tried toners, pore cleansers, eye creams and masks of egg yolk and witch hazel. Nothing worked. Then she hit upon glycolic peels and fruit acids. She effuses, "They're melting away layers. Of work? Or skin? Who knows...