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Men have more 'senior moments' of memory loss than women
Lost the car keys? Forgot someones name? Many elderly people suffer slight cognitive problems but men are more likely than women to suffer momentary memory lapse or senior moments, according to a US study. Researchers from the Mayo Alzheimers Disease Research Center in Rochester, Minnesota, found 19 per cent of men aged 70 to 89 years had so-called mild cognitive impairment, compared to only 14 per cent of women.
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Ways of seeing
To live is to be photographed, to have a record of ones life, and therefore to go on with ones life oblivious, or claiming to be oblivious, to the cameras nonstop attentions. But to live is also to pose.
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The real logo in no logo
So, brands are relevant they provide the rallying point to measure change in consumer behaviour, they help you predict whether your monthly investment plan is likely to be secure and can even reinforce the salience of one country over another. Even in Naomi Kleins book No Logo, which aimed at preventing brands from taking over the public and private space of people a bunch of kids getting the Nike swoosh tattooed on their calves being the extreme the brand provided the idea against which she took a position.
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Nilanjana S Roy: The debutantes' ball - The Shakti Bhatt prize
Its not about competing or not competing with the greats, says Mridula Koshy, winner of the 2009 Shakti Bhatt Prize, about Indias only book prize for debut writers. When youre a new writer, its not that youre necessarily an amateur the need is for the newness of what you have to say to be recognised. Its about recognising how literature evolves. So, for writers on the shortlist of this sort of prize, what it does is to allow writers to engage with readers, and just as important with other writers. This years Shakti Bhatt Prize shortlist spotlights six writers across a wide range of genres three first novels, two of them from Pakistan, the biography of one of the subcontinents most fiercely political families, a graphic novel set in the Delhi of the Emergency, and a mesmerising food-and-travel odyssey.
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Tea with BS: Pranav Mistry
The youthful inventor of the Sixth Sense device has foreign governments and film-makers interested in his technology that binds the digital and the physical worlds.
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Mumbai greens
A farmers market and a home delivery scheme help bring fresh organic foods to city kitchens.
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Recipe for success
Three years after he sold MTR, Sadanand Maiya has designs on the south indian snacks market.
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Look twice
Twins are a fascinating subject, but an exhibition of Ketaki Sheths photographs of twins does not engage.
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A kathi above the rest
We find you the best places to sample the citys fabled rolls.
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Things fall apart
When it comes to Pakistan, it wouldnt be correct to claim that Im entirely a dove. This is not because Im so on top of affairs in that country that I can rattle off good reasons for this wariness I barely know whats going on in my own head, let alone theirs but because I have, through a combination of scanning the headlines and osmosis, developed the general impression that one should trust, but verify. Which is another way of saying that on no account should one believe a word spoken by those double-crossing so-and-sos.
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Fresh blood
The Indian Red Cross gets a wholesome new space for its blood bank in New Delhi.
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Online libraries: 'E' for convenience
With the proliferation of e-readers and development of e-ink technologies, there are those who have already begun to put chisel to headstone of traditional reading. On the other hand, technology is making access to books easier, such as in the form of online libraries that let readers browse and reserve books online, which are then delivered home.
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