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...Alzheimer's. Yet such cases, researchers were only too well aware, accounted for merely a small fraction of all cases of Alzheimer's disease. Still other genes, they reasoned, must be involved in the great majority of cases--those in which dementia does not strike until one's seventh, eighth or ninth decade of life...
...Some letters came back with six or seven identical labels on them, only to receive a seventh or eighth," McHenry wrote in an e-mail message...
...Amis went through a bad patch during the mid-'90s, much of it eagerly, indeed cheerfully, recounted in the British press. He left his wife of almost 10 years and his two sons to take up with an American woman. Dissatisfied with the negotiations for the rights to his eighth novel, The Information, he dumped his agent, Pat Kavanagh, thereby infuriating her husband, the author Julian Barnes, who was until that moment one of Amis' closest friends. Amis underwent a long bout of dental reconstruction, prompting reporters to observe, in print, that he was not only a failed husband...
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...second consecutive year, two Crimson grapplers earned highly coveted All-American accolades. Co-captains Joey Killar (165 pounds) and Ed Mosley (174 pounds) were both named All-Americans with matching eighth-place finishes at the NCAA Championships in March. These standout performances, together with those of sophomore Dawid Rechul and freshman Max Odom, gave the Crimson a 28th-place finish...