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5:18 pm
Wed October 17, 2012

Treatment For Alzheimer's Should Start Years Before Disease Sets In

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Alexis McKenzie, executive director of the Methodist Home of the District of Columbia Forest Side, an Alzheimer's assisted-living facility, puts her hand on the arm of resident Catherine Peake.
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Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 10:12 am

Treatment for Alzheimer's probably needs to begin years or even decades before symptoms of the disease start to appear, scientists reported at this week's Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans.

"By the time an Alzheimer's patient is diagnosed even with mild or moderate Alzheimer's there is very, very extensive neuron death," said John Morrison of Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. "And the neurons that die are precisely those neurons that allow you to navigate the world and make sense of the world."

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National Security
4:58 pm
Wed October 17, 2012

Man Arrested In Plot To Blow Up NY Federal Reserve

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Originally published on Wed October 17, 2012 6:09 pm

A man has been arrested in an alleged terror plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City. Federal authorities and the New York Police Department collaborated to foil the plot apparently conceived by a Bangladeshi man, Quazi Mohammd Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis. Nafis is said to have conceived the plot. However, authorities learned of the plot and actually provided what appeared to be the bomb. It was inert and there was no threat to the public.

World
4:24 pm
Wed October 17, 2012

Israeli Politicians Look To U.S. For Campaign Funds

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting at his offices in Jerusalem in October. A new report shows that Netanyahu raised more than 90 percent of his campaign money in the United States.
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Originally published on Sun October 21, 2012 10:03 am

It's midday in the cafeteria of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, and legislators and their aides are busy wheeling and dealing over lunch.

Gil Hoffman, political analyst for The Jerusalem Post newspaper, surveys the cafeteria floor with an expert's eye.

"Never a dull moment in election season," he says. "This is where the politicians, when there is something really important to get across to the press, this is where they do it; this is where they meet and make whatever political deals they need to get ahead."

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Shots - Health News
4:24 pm
Wed October 17, 2012

How The Taliban Is Thwarting The War On Polio

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Children in a Lahore slum after heavy rains. The slum has a large population of Pashtuns who came from Pakistan's lawless tribal regions; many carry the polio virus with them.
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Khan Wali, 21, scrutinizes passing cars for young children at the traffic checkpoint. If a child appears to be younger than 5, the driver must pull over.
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Wali marks a child's finger with ink after administering the polio vaccine. Children need to be inoculated multiple times in order to be fully immunized against the virus.
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Social mobilizers like Awaiz Amjad (right) walk through dense slums and go door to door inoculating children. Many children are malnourished, with weak immune systems.
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Amjad checks a child's fingernail to see whether he has been inoculated in a Lahore slum. It can be dangerous work: Some vaccinators have been attacked, and one was killed in a Karachi slum this summer.
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Health care workers take samples of sewage water to check for the polio virus in Rawalpindi, a city near Islamabad known to be at high-risk for polio.
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A child is inoculated with the polio vaccine at a traffic checkpoint just outside Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Last year, Pakistan had the highest number of polio cases — 198.
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Social mobilizer Omer Feroze makes his way through a Lahore slum as part of an effort to educate people about polio and dispel any rumors about the vaccine. Misconceptions about the vaccine are rife within the country's population.
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Originally published on Wed October 17, 2012 7:26 pm

Pakistan is one of the remaining corners of the world where polio still lingers. Last year, the government declared a national emergency, and with the help of international institutions, embarked on an aggressive vaccination campaign.

So far, the results have been promising. The number of new polio cases is about a third of last year's total of 198.

But the new campaign, like previous efforts, hasn't been able to overcome one critical problem: getting into parts of Pakistan's lawless tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan to vaccinate the children there.

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Books
3:29 pm
Wed October 17, 2012

Thousands Line Up For Rare Rowling Appearance

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J.K. Rowling promotes her new novel, The Casual Vacancy, at Lincoln Center in New York. It was her only U.S. appearance.
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Originally published on Wed October 17, 2012 6:09 pm

While much of America was watching the second presidential debate, about 2,000 people — many of them between the ages of 20 and 40 — were doing something very different. They had gotten a rare and prized ticket to the only U.S. appearance by J.K Rowling, as she promotes her new book for adults, The Casual Vacancy.

The crowd was huge but happy — double the number originally planned, forcing the organizers to change venues. Attendees got a ticket to the Lincoln Center event and a copy of the book, which Rowling would later sign.

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Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, Michele Norris
Clinton Wieden and Mitch Watson

 

On May 3, 1971, at 5 p.m., All Things Considered debuted on 90 public radio stations.

In the 40 years since, almost everything about the program has changed, from the hosts, producers, editors and reporters to the length of the program, the equipment used and even the audience.

However there is one thing that remains the same: each show consists of the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries, insightful features on the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound.

All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every weekday the two-hour show is hosted by Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block. In 1977, ATC expanded to seven days a week with a one-hour show on Saturdays and Sundays, currently hosted by Guy Raz. During 2012, while Michele is focusing on other reporting assignments, Weekend Edition Sunday host Audie Cornish will fill in for her in the host chair.

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Clinton Wieden, Mitch Watson
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