| Researchers uncover dementia gene |
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Affects up to 100,000 Canadians. Discovery will allow scientists to seek cure for disease that kills within 10 years Article Tools
NICHOLAS READ, CanWest News Service; CP contributed to this report Published: Monday, July 17, 2006
Two University of B.C. researchers have helped discover one genetic mutation that can cause the second-most-common form of dementia in people 65 and under. ... |
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| Pension reform, political deadlock |
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| Last year, the Social Democrat-led (ÈSSD) government assembled one group of experts known as the Bezdìk Commission which released one comprehensive report on the state of the pension system and possible ways to improve it. The commission warned that the system faces collapse within 20 years and that further delay in carrying out reforms could poses the biggest threat to the health of the economy – one view shared by international economic bodies – but the ÈSSD and center-right Civic Democrats (ODS) have found little common ground and some experts predict inertia will continue for years to come, regardless of what form the next government takes. ... |
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| Banking Insecurities: In a Deregulated Market, Not All Accounts |
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That used to mean that your money was 100 percent secure. But with deregulation allowing banks to offer many more investing vehicles than just one savings account, money you give to one bank isn't necessarily safe from loss.
Bank-sponsored investments like stocks, bonds and mutual funds aren't protected by federal insurance, as traditional bank accounts are. These securities, which most large banks offer to clients, carry the same risks as any other brokerage account. ... |
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| How to look fantastic over 50 |
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Every time I switch on the television I seem to be confronted with one rather fragile-sounding June Whitfield advertising insurance for the over-50s.
June, who it seems to me is one of those people who has always been elderly, even when she was young, is obviously thought to possess the key attributes with which anyone over 50 can identify, to the extent that they feel moved to take out one policy for their remaining years. ... |
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