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...Mortimer, along with University of Kansas psychologist Susan Kemper, began analyzing the autobiographies for evidence of such extra capacity. Kemper, an expert on the effects of aging on language usage, had earlier shown that "idea density"--the number of discrete ideas per 10 written words--was a good marker of educational level, vocabulary and general knowledge. Grammatical complexity, meanwhile, was an indicator of how well memory was functioning...
Applying these measures to the sisters' autobiographies, Snowdon and Kemper found to their astonishment that the elderly sisters who showed signs of Alzheimer's had consistently authored essays low in both idea density and grammatical complexity a half-century or more earlier. One of the lowest-scoring samples begins: "My father, Mr. L.M. Hallacher, was born in the city of Ross, County Cork, Ireland, and is now a sheet-metal worker in Eau Claire." By contrast, one of the highest-scoring essays conveys the same type of information but in a dramatically different way: "My father is an all-around...
HBPS bought the publishing rights for the story, which will be ghost-written by Steve Kemper, after a proposal backed by technology gurus promised the device would dramatically alter urban planning and the daily lives of city dwellers...
...School Press, though reportedly the publisher has no idea what the book will be about. IT was invented by DEAN KAMEN, a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and inventor of a wheelchair that can climb stairs. Kamen is the subject of an upcoming book by journalist Steve Kemper; the book's proposal, first reported last week by Inside.com reveals that Kamen's newest invention has grizzled venture capitalists predicting Kamen will eclipse Bill Gates in wealth when IT debuts in 2002. Lives will be dramatically altered. Some speculate that IT is some kind of revolutionary scooter. Kamen...
...when Insider.com broke the news last week about the book deal between HBSP, Kamen and the book's ghost author, Steve Kemper, the story unleashed a torrent of speculation about the nature of the invention. Some imagine that it might be a personal hovercraft, others simply a high-tech scooter...