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...regarding renovation, business loans, retail niches and the marketing of downtown. "We're not where we want to be yet, but in the 15 years I've lived here, it's got a little better each year. You should see the droves that come in for our trick or treat on Avenue G., and the lighted Christmas parade brings tons of people...
...have to treat parents like shareholders in their children's education," says now retired superintendent Robert Pickett, who designed the plan. "We did whatever we could to get them to buy in." That meant closing down five schools that were in the worst disrepair, renovating the rest and building two schools from scratch on the outskirts of town. The district installed parents on its strategic-planning committee. Then it increased the rigor of its curriculum, asking parents to vote on an academic focus for each of the schools. At one writing, communication and technology school, for example, students keep...
...months--they should soon be able to demonstrate once and for all whether getting rid of plaques is the most important step in halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease. They've already started preliminary clinical trials in human volunteers of the first anti-Alzheimer's compounds designed to treat the cause, and not just the symptoms, of the disease...
...target their main ingredient, a protein called beta amyloid. Last summer scientists from Elan Pharmaceuticals, a biotech firm located in Ireland, reported that they had developed a vaccine that could shrink the plaques--at least in mice. Here the idea is to prime the immune system to treat amyloid proteins just as it would any foreign invader and target them for destruction. The concept is somewhat counterintuitive, since most researchers believe that at least part of the damage in Alzheimer's disease is caused by the immune system's overreaction to the presence of plaques and tangles. But the idea...
Even if scientists figure out precisely how Alzheimer's destroys brains, it is not clear that they will be able to stop it. But it's also clear that no one will be able to treat the disease--let alone cure it--until they...