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Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.
Alzheimer's disease is expected to grow from the current 5.1 million cases nationally to 16 million by 2050 as the population ages.
Symptoms include forgetfulness and losing the ability to do common functions. For example, a person may forget how to cook, how to dress themselves and other skills. Symptoms come and go.
For more information and advice on Alzheimer's disease, call the Alzheimer's Association 24-hour help line at 800-272-3900 or online at www.alz.org/txstar Help is available in Spanish.
Source: Alzheimer's Association. .
Starwatch Consumer: GM dealers will list used cars on eBay
General Motors dealers will start listing their certified used car inventories at eBay Motors in the second quarter this year. Certified used cars have longer warranties and often are in better condition than others. Ford recalls SUVs Ford Motor Co. is recalling 123,632 Expedition and Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicles to fix door handles that may allow latches to open in a side-impact crash. The housings for springs in the interior door handles of 2006 and 2007 models can break during normal use and not return the handles to the locked position. Patch problem Johnson & Johnson and Novartis AG are recalling patches containing the painkiller fentanyl because of possible cuts in the drug reservoir that could cause patients or caregivers to overdose on the potent drug inside.
The Great Fire of 16.66 miles
I have a small electronic milometer on my bicycle which, among other fascinating statistics (maximum speed, average speed, current speed), records the distance covered to two decimal places. Thus ten and two thirds of a mile shows up as 10.66, just shy of 16 and a half miles is 16.49, and so on. It will be seen immediately that although those figures represent mileage, they can also be read as dates, very famous dates in the case of the two examples. Using this insight, I have developed a game combining my twin interests of cycling and general knowledge. The game is to think, as you pedal along, of something significant that happened on that date in the moment that your milometer registers it. Beautiful in its simplicity, no? You haven't got long. One one-hundredth of a mile is 17.6 yards, or not much over 50 feet.
Teen Charged in Tenn. School Shooting
A feud between two high school students that began off campus culminated at a gym class Monday when one student shot the other twice, then handed the gun to a coach, saying, "It's over now," authorities said. The victim, a 19-year-old senior, was in critical condition at a hospital, authorities said. The suspected shooter, 17-year-old sophomore Corneilous Cheers, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment and carrying a gun on school property, said police spokeswoman Monique Martin. The teenagers got into a confrontation off campus over the weekend or last week, police said. Investigators were trying to determine whether it was related to gang activity, Martin said. A detention hearing was scheduled for Tuesday in juvenile court for Cheers, who did not yet have a lawyer.
Bush says won't use Olympics to criticize China
He said in meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao "I do remind him that he can do more to relieve the suffering in Darfur." "There are a lot of issues that I suspect people are going to opine about during the Olympics -- the Dalai Lama crowd, you've got the Global Warming folks, you got Darfur. "I am not going to go and use the Olympics as an opportunity to express my opinions to the Chinese people in a public way because I do it all the time with the President." Bush also defended what he called his "seminal decision" not to send U.S. troops to Darfur despite what he called the genocide there. His decision not intervene by force was taken partly out of the desire not to send U.S. troops into another Muslim country, he said. "I was pretty well backed off of it by a lot of folks here in America who care deeply about the issue.
Ritchie finishes final scene
It all becomes very clear as the story continues," she said. "We will revisit a lot of the history, in particular mine. "Knowing I'm leaving and that Sally's days are numbered on the show, it has been nice to tidy up a few things." Next year, Ritchie embarks on a new adventure, joining FM station Nova 96.9's breakfast crew with Merrick and Rosso .
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He has squandered billions of dollars in a war that I believe should never have been authorized and should have never been waged. (APPLAUSE) We have not made the investments that are needed in our school system. You travel around South Carolina along the corridor of shame, and you've got children who are going to schools that were built in the 1800s. And they are not able to compete in an international economy. So it is absolutely critical right now to give a stimulus to the economy. And Senator Clinton mentioned tax rebates. That wasn't the original focus of her plan. I think recently she has caught up with what I had originally said, which is we've got to get taxes into the -- tax cuts into the pockets of hard-working Americans right away.
January 2007 Archives
Now more than ever, it seems plastic surgery is a necessary evil for Hollywooders hoping to stay in the spotlight. Everybody's having something lifted or removed or plumped. There's no such thing as a natural beauty. In this week's Daily Blabber video, I take a look at some of the celebrities who may have had a little something-something done -- like Jen (natch), Trashlee Simpson, Salma Hayek, Ivanka Trump, Posh Spice, Cameron Diaz, Paris and more -- complete with before and after photos so that you can judge for yourself. So check it out: Celebrity Plastic Surgery 2 .
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