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...Alzheimer's research," says group member Colin Masters, professor of pathology at the University of Melbourne, who says drugs that could stop or reverse the disease may not be far off. Alzheimer's inexorably strips people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function. Characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells, Alzheimer's typically kills within 5 to 10 years of onset. Partly because the majority of patients spend the last stages of the illness in government-subsidized aged-care homes, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: an Access...
...going away. Outbreaks surfaced last week in Malaysia and again in Thailand, where an 18-year-old became the country's ninth person to die from the virus. News on the research front has been worrying, too. Recent experiments in the Netherlands have shown that cats can carry and spread the H5N1 virus, while South Korean scientists have linked their outbreak this past winter to migratory ducks. Such ducks have a natural resistance to the flu, so they can potentially spread the virus over wide areas without showing symptoms. "This may explain why the virus has reappeared in divergent areas...
There is no pat explanation for what draws people to Islam in its most toxic, intolerant form. According to studies for a government project to counter the spread of Muslim extremism in Britain, recruitment for radical groups is just as likely to take place on college campuses, among educated middle-class Muslims, as it is in poor neighborhoods. Historians like Princeton's Bernard Lewis argue that such factors as the repressive nature of many Arab governments and the sense of aggrievement that has plagued Muslim societies since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire also play a part in fueling virulent...
...policies. The father's Gulf War stopped at the Kuwait border; the son's drove right to Baghdad. And if the father had a problem with the vision thing, too sparse and stingy for an optimistic age, Bush is all vision during these hard times: bring world peace, spread democracy, redirect history. "We are changing the world," he often says. He tells TIME, "We'll look back, and we'll say, 'You know, thank God the United States held true to its belief...
...know that in the long run, the only way to secure our country is to spread freedom. I just believe that, as sure as I'm sitting here. We've laid out a doctrine that says we're going to secure the peace, protect the peace and extend the peace. To secure the peace in the war on terrorism, we're very aggressively searching for al-Qaeda and affiliates of al-Qaeda and holding people accountable if they harbor al-Qaeda. Preserving the peace is alliance building, working with others. The Proliferation Security Initiative is a classic example of something...