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While much remains unknown about the deadly disease, advances in research have shed new light on its mechanisms, and on how dementia affects the aging brain.
"The Abu Dhabi art fair offers a glimpse of the emirate's impressive cultural ambitions." The city will soon host branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums.
As companies look for scalable ways to store their data, cloud computing appears more attractive than ever. The industry is receiving a good amount of venture capital.
The Federal Reserve's planned injection of $650 billion into the Treasury is creating investment where there otherwise wouldn't be. In other words, a bubble, says Jesse Eisinger.
"Pornography is dangerous to children because it creates an artificially sexualised atmosphere for adults." This blurs the boundaries of acceptable sexual conduct, says Sigrid Rausing.
Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman says American labor laws are hopelessly behind the times and that New Deal gains no longer fit the economy of 2010.
Mahatma Gandhi was not the solitary hero of popular myth. He was an entrepreneur who relied on a tight-knit community of co-workers, says Yale historian Ian Desai.
Experiments suggest that people are covetous of the things possessed by angry people. The attraction could be evolutionary: more aggressive hunters capture more food.
Each device that connects to the Internet is assigned an I.P. address, but we are quickly approaching the numerical 4.3 billion limit. The Daily Beast on possible solutions.
The bipartisan deficit commission has recommended cutting Medicare, Social Security and defense spending. It reads like a report from Mars, says economist Dean Baker.
Forbes' Katie Phillips sets some limits on political correctness and politeness even though obeying her conscience could cost her some Facebook friends.
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