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Small and his colleagues have been trying to understand this difference. Small's hunch--now proven--was that a node of the hippocampus different from the one affected in Alzheimer's was breaking down in normal memory loss. "In humans, monkeys and rats," he says, "normal aging targets a node...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memory: Forgetting Is the New Normal | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

In her lab at Yale, Arnsten has roused idling monkey and rat brains with a medication called guanfacine, which appears to amplify the circuits of the prefrontal cortex. The drug has been tested on children with ADHD as well as on people with traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress and schizophrenia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memory: Forgetting Is the New Normal | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

The national media has combined the QRAC story with “controversy” surrounding students performing the Muslim call to prayer from the steps of Widener Library during Islamic Awareness week. Thanks to an op-ed written in this newspaper by student organizers about their right to use...

Author: By Adam M. Guren | Title: Extra, Extra? | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

To attempt to transcend race either by ignoring it or simply declaring it transcended would be folly - even now, in the year 2008. That was the reality Obama both confronted and embraced today. "Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Bold Gamble on Race | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

For most environmentalists, the answer to that depressing litany is to keep pushing the same message harder: cut carbon and cut it now. But a few scientists are beginning to quietly raise the possibility of cooling the planet's fever directly through geoengineering. The principle behind it is straightforward - compensate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geoengineering | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

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