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A new study suggests that for women, weight loss later in life may offer a clue to the onset of dementia. A research team at the Mayo Clinic analyzed medical records and found that women who develop dementia experience a drop in their weight as many as 10 years prior to the onset of memory loss. The findings suggest that dementia may interfere with body weight maintenance long before it affects memory and thinking.

DEFINITION: (noun) A stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs. SYNONYMS: cant dog, peavy. USAGE: The lumberjack rammed the peavey's spike into the log and rolled it toward the pile.

Anne Hutchinson was an American colonist who was banished from Boston for her religious views. In her living room, she held discussions in which she emphasized faith rather than works as the means to salvation, held to predestination, and claimed she could identify the elect among the colonists. These activities caused Puritan leaders to view her as an antinomian heretic. What did Anne and her followers do after being banished?

Disneyland is the world's most famous themed amusement park and has welcomed an estimated 515 million visitors since its opening. Walt Disney's original plans called for a modest park to be built on 8 acres (32,000 m²) next to the Disney Studios as a place where his employees could go to relax. A much more ambitious Disneyland opened to invited guests and the media on July 17, 1955. The day's events did not go smoothly. What were some of the problems that plagued the much-anticipated opening?

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

An iron lung, or negative pressure ventilator, is an airtight metal tank that encloses all of the body except the head and forces the lungs to inhale and exhale through regulated changes in air pressure. It found its most famous use in the mid-1900s when victims of polio, stricken with paralysis and unable to breathe, were placed in these steel chambers to survive. What treatment methods have, for the most part, replaced the iron lung?