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Unexplained weight loss in older people might be an early signal of Alzheimer's disease, appearing several years before the memory lapses that define the illness, according to an intriguing but unproven new theory.
An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt. Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month, donations to rebuild New Orleans have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars.
About 400 people gathered near a stage on an eastern segment of the mall, a large patchwork American flag serving as a backdrop. Amid banners and signs proclaiming support for U.S. troops, several speakers hailed the effort to bring democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and denounced those who protest itMy bumper Sticker:
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From the Houston Chronicle’s DomeBlog Tom DeLay taunts poor children. But, as usual, the liberal press didn't report it all. Here, in interests of a no spin zoning, are the top five other things old Tommie said.
5) DeLay met with a woman who had been raped and asked her if it wasn't just like playing "Spin the Bottle in High School?"
4) Delay met with a man whose mother had died in the Astrodome and asked if "they had ever seen that "Six Feet Under" show? All those dead people make me laugh!"
3) DeLay comforted a man who had been mugged by telling him that "most people have to pay a coach to learn to box."
2) After an elderly man complained he'd lived in poverty all his life, but at least he had a home, DeLay noted "sure, but now you can afford to come to the Astrodome."
1) As he left the Astrodome, stinking of gin, DeLay yelled "You're all invited to Trent's house!"
Then, in a puff of sulfurous smoke, he disappeared (oh, only if!)
I'd note that this is just an analysis for New Orleans, and in no way do I mean to slight people in Biloxi, Luling, or even the Brett Farve household. Some mathematician and intarweb researcher smarter than I (not difficult to believe) can do all the math for everyone else. If it comes down to it our chickenhawk leaders might need to forfeit one or two more days of their personal pecker-hardening overseas adventures. Surely that is a contribution worth making?But it's time for those "compassionate" conservatives to step up and prove that their compassion can be showered upon those who don't live in oil-producing nations. And its time for them to prove their compassion can come from somewhere other than the barrel of a gun on an armored vehicle.
Jaabbar Gibbson, 20, sits behind the wheel of a bus he commandeered and drove himself and 80 people he picked up along the road to Houston Wednesday night. They were the first evacuees from Hurricane Katrina to arrive by their own vehicles hoping to find shelter at the Astrodome. Houston Chronicle photo by Carlos Rios via Associated Press
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