Not all of Dr. Richard Mayeux’s elderly patients have Alzheimer’s disease; not all will even go on to develop it
Alzheimer’s: New Research on Understanding the Disease
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Royal Pain: The Republican Case Against Britain’s Monarchy
During one of the royal pageants that periodically choke the streets of London, a conservatively dressed American approached me. “You must be so proud,” she trilled, and she became quite truculent when I told her I felt nothing but shame
Nixon Daughters Bury the Hatchet
Have two sisters ever been closer than Tricia and Julie Nixon?
The Energy Source In Our Backyard
Turmoil in the oil-rich Middle East, combined with the nuclear crisis in Japan, has caused a lot of experts to recalculate the global energy algorithm for the future. But people need energy now, and with the ravenous economic growth of China, India and Brazil, demand has grown even more urgent
Transcript: TIME Interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
This is the transcript of TIME managing editor Richard Stengel’s interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange via Skype on Nov. 30, 2010.
A Brief History Of: The Navy SEALs
As darkness fell on April 12, Captain Richard Phillips was bound at gunpoint on a lifeboat bobbing in the Indian Ocean, held hostage by a band of Somali pirates who had attacked his container ship five days earlier. Saving Phillips’ life meant taking out his three captors in as many shots–which the Navy SEAL snipers who rescued him managed to do from the swaying fantail of a destroyer 75 ft
Castro’s sister: She helped CIA against Cuban leaders
Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, worked for the CIA during some crucial years of the Cold War, she says in her new memoir.
Roadside doctors with no degrees thrive in India
Sitting on an iron bench along a busy street, Chaman Lal sticks his fingers into a mug full of a greasy concoction and then applies the dark-red brew to areas where his patients complain of pain.
Kids care for mom without arms, legs
Every morning, Lisa Strong’s 10-year-old son lifts her heavy prosthetic legs and screws them into the levers in her knees.
Pilots of wayward flight talk to NTSB
Federal investigators have interviewed the pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last week, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said on Sunday.