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Others, including several prominent Sept 11. survivors, have argued that the Twin Towers should be rebuilt as before...
...YORK The World Trade Center's Twin Towers were leveled in the Sept. 11 attacks. Recent threats targeted the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge...
Childs has already completed much of the design work on 7 World Trade Center, the other office tower that caught fire and later collapsed on Sept. 11. Excavation on that site began last week. Unlike the Twin Towers, that structure was built by Silverstein, so he had a freer hand to begin construction there. But he and Childs have adjusted the design in important ways in response to concerns from the other players...
Take the case of the identical-twin 81-year-old sisters reported by Dr. Gary Small in The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young (Hyperion), due out next month. One sister lived a "hard life," smoking, drinking heavily, eating a high-fat diet and exercising little, if at all. She started experiencing mild forgetfulness at 77, followed by difficulty balancing her checkbook, completing crossword puzzles and addressing Christmas cards. Soon she developed Alzheimer's. The other twin was a social drinker who never smoked, adhered to a diet low in starches and animal fats, and exercised...
Some of us will go beyond the level of the second twin, to what is known as mild cognitive impairment, and some all the way to dementia, the most common form of which is Alzheimer's. But most of us won't--and need not. "People used to think that senility was a normal part of aging," says Small, a professor of psychiatry and aging at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Now we see it's a disease. If we all lived long enough, we'd all get Alzheimer's disease if we did nothing about it." The good...