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...time, but the disease that carried his name soon came to be regarded as a medical oddity. Why? For many years, the diagnosis appeared to apply only to a very small group of patients under the age of 60. That soon changed, thanks in part to the widespread use of vaccines and antibiotics, which extended the life-span (from around 50 years in 1906 to 77 today). By the 1960s, the number of cases of so-called senile dementia had increased to the point that neurologists finally made the connection: in most cases, Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia were...
Scruggs isn't looking for money--or at least not just money. He is aiming to use his lawsuit to do what Bill and Hillary Clinton and the leaders of Congress have failed to do: rewrite the rules of American health care. If Scruggs succeeds, medicine will join a growing list of industries, from asbestos to tobacco to guns, that are being overhauled and regulated by trial lawyers and lawsuits rather than by elected officials...
...Encyclopedia, "his reputation later declined because he was not an innovator." He has fans today who think he got a bad rap, but it shows how history judges people. The reference work gives far more respect to anyone who really innovated, ranging from fashion guru Elsa Schiaparelli (for the use of shocking pink) to bridge engineer Robert Maillart (for the use of reinforced concrete slabs...
...evangelical zeal of his subject, Lynn, who has a degree in philosophy as well as one in architecture. "He's a very animated talker, really a proselytizer." Senior editor Belinda Luscombe found herself fascinated with the social consciousness of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has made ingenious use of cardboard to build elegant homes for refugees. Senior reporter Daniel S. Levy writes about landscape architect Julie Bargmann, who turns industrial wastelands into places of beauty while preserving their gritty heritage. Says he: "She fell in love with industrial America during drives down the New Jersey Turnpike, past the refineries...
...also has two competitors on his tail. MyFreeCar.com also in San Francisco, pays drivers $350 a month to use their own wheels but hopes to find advertisers who will cough up free cars...