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" The problem is that this nucleus of power brokers in our City Council depend on 'public apathy'. There is a long line of examples where they have counted on amnesia, or plain not caring, enough! It dissipates and they go on to the next. People, this should be the last straw, take a stand here, and at least call your Councilman or the Mayor himself. ". Myturn wrote on Aug 12, 2008 8:41 AM:" "The numbers (numbers shown at City PowerPoint 1st and only meeting) have been determined by Chief... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Bears Chill Out as Cairo Zoo Reforms Aug 11, 2008
BEIJING - The United Nations' environment boss has rebuked global media for a "frenzied focus" on Beijing's pollution and "amnesia" over past hosts' similar problems ... But the current frenzied focus is marked by considerable amnesia. (Planet Ark, United States)
* Breathe easy about Beijing: the air is better Aug 8, 2008
But the current frenzied focus is marked by considerable amnesia. After all, air pollution was a major concern in Los Angeles 24 years ago, though few now seem to recall the dramatic scene at the end of the womens marathon, when the Swiss competitor was seen staggering and stumbling from exhaustion, the heat, and, perhaps, the effects of air pollution. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
"Survivor" All-Stars Ready for Battle Aug 4, 2008
" Applegate's rep also tells E! News that the 36-year-old Emmy nominee will maintain her regular shooting schedule on Samantha Who? while undergoing treatment. The former Married With Children star is set to appear Sept. 5 alongside , , , 000005A8 and at the telethon, which will be broadcast simultaneously on CBS, NBC and ABC. A few weeks later, Applegate has a shot at her first Emmy for lead actress in a comedy for her role as a well-meaning amnesia patient who's trying to make amends for her... (Yahoo News -- Survivor)
Behavioural Traits of Psychopaths Jul 31, 2008
Psychopaths often claim to have suffered from amnesia, temporary insanity, multiple personality disorder or blackouts to justify their crimes. In addition to lying outright, psychopaths are inclined to evade, providing responses that do not answer the questions put to them. (Suite101.com)
Mystery woman identified as fugitive Jul 31, 2008
"We're not sure why. It may be post-traumatic stress disorder, or possibly amnesia from drug use," Trabka said. "Tests showed no drugs in her system. She knows that we know who she is and that Florida won't be extraditing her.". (New Haven Register, CT)
Nestor wants District 2 council seat Jul 29, 2008
Nestor wrote on Jul 27, 2008 7:22 PM:" 'Pray tell' it seems we have another high priced City official posting again after they have spoken with City legal council that you and I have paid for. A convoluted one sided response? 'Pick and chose' argument, never tested, never judged, and almost never covered for public consumption by the Tribune. Do I love to stir it up? You bet I do! Do I love the debate, you bet I do! Do I think the taxpayers will make up their own minds given the information from... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
U.S. must commit to workforce training now Jul 28, 2008
As Americans born between 1946 and 1964 start receiving their first Social Security checks, public discourse on the impact of boomer retirements rests on two assumptions: that the exodus of older workers will deprive workplaces of decades of experience and knowledge (referred to as organizational amnesia); and that the U.S. education system is positioned to produce the talent we need for the future ... While hand wringing in the executive suite will continue over a potential baby boomer brain... (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Paramedic gets $250,000, apology from Rawlins Jul 26, 2008
Faber coped with the assaults by closing her mind in what psychiatrists call "dissociative amnesia," which can be a component of post-traumatic stress disorder, Harrison said ... Dissociative amnesia is different from repressed memories, which can be very difficult to prove at trial, Harrison said. (Casper Star-Tribune)
Quick fix plan unravels for John and Anne Darwin Jul 26, 2008
Why, having seemingly got away with it, did a suntanned John suddenly resurface in a London police station last December, feigning amnesia and saying: "I think I'm a missing person." ... Bizarrely, the former school teacher thought that while Anne stayed in Panama he could fly back to Britain and hoodwink police that he really was suffering from amnesia. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Darwins: How one simple lie led to the destruction of a family Jul 26, 2008
On 1 December last year, Mr Darwin, pretending to be an amnesiac, walked into a London police station and announced: "I think I'm a missing person." The scene was set for the heart-warming return of a long-lost father ... He thought he could convince police here that he had amnesia, thus allowing him to apply for a passport and driving licence in the name of John Darwin. (Independent)
Slain 1960s leaders remembered in Kentucky exhibit Jul 26, 2008
"We see the names and faces that have helped shape who we are, and who we'll be, personalities and events that should not be lost in the amnesia of our culture.". Kitty Kelley, a celebrity biographer and the legal representative of Tretick's archive, said Tretick was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles with Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when Kennedy was fatally shot. (The Daily Reflector)
* 'Back-from-dead canoeist' and wife jailed in Britain Jul 25, 2008
But in December, he flew back to Britain and handed himself in to police, claiming amnesia and telling officers: I think Im a missing person. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Brown: People are asking: could I bicycle to work? Jul 24, 2008
This amnesia is starting to wear off: bicycling for recreation is booming, and bicycle enthusiasts routinely spend a few thousand dollars for a bicycle every few years. A tiny portion of the US population even bicycles to work. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Jail Time for Canoe Man and His Wife Jul 24, 2008
But today the North Sea kayaker who faked his own death only to resurface five years later claiming amnesia and his wife Anne Darwin were reunited not in some romantic, wind-swept port, but in an English courthouse. Related Articles. (Time.com)
Too Much, Too Little Sleep Increases Ischemic Risk In Postmenopausal Women Jul 22, 2008
28, 2007) Patients who experience symptoms described as transient neurological attacks, such as temporary amnesia or confusion, may have a higher risk for stroke and dementia, according to a study in the Dec.. . (Science Daily)
Somebody has stolen our president! Jul 20, 2008
They know a diaster when they see it so now they want to give us Americans a case of amnesia. DON T BUY IT FOLKS. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Soldiers Killed in Valor, Buried in Shadows: Margaret Carlson Jul 17, 2008
This week the eighth investigation into how high up that false story went concluded that rampant amnesia and missing documents would stop short of punishing anyone ranked higher than a three-star general. Easing the Pain. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
When a person has amnesia, how can they remember how to speak? Jul 13, 2008
When a person has amnesia, how can they remember how to speak ... When a person has amnesia, how can they remember how to speak ... Despite persons suffering from amnesia, they still have plenty of torque. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Thomas Disch Jul 13, 2008 Effects Of Healing Touch Therapy Being Studied Jul 8, 2008 Unadulterated Altruism in Ghana Jul 8, 2008 ANOTHER VIEW: Have politics of divisiveness entered EPD? Jul 7, 2008 BILL SPELTZ: Dickenson's passion for pigskin still thrives Jul 6, 2008 Letters for Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Jul 3, 2008 Kelli AndersonVIEWPOINT Jul 2, 2008 July 4: Will Smith's Holiday Jul 2, 2008 Tobin Dalrymple , Canwest News Service Jul 1, 2008 Polak wakes to more hopeful future Jul 1, 2008 ‘If only I had worn the right gear' Jun 29, 2008 COLUMN: Right-wing Republicans' claim to contrary, they're embracing 'Big Brother' Jun 26, 2008 Stony Point Players to stage 'Nunsense A-Men' Jun 26, 2008 'Grease' Actress Dody Goodman Dies Jun 24, 2008 JEAN ROSS: These cuts are hazardous to state's health Jun 19, 2008 It's hard to know what to believe after review of Ben Stein's movie Jun 17, 2008 Scenes Of Nature Trump Technology In Reducing Low-level Stress Jun 17, 2008 Enlightened advice for lightning strikes Jun 17, 2008 Become a scandal-monger. Jun 17, 2008 Hurricane prep is priority for inland also Jun 16, 2008 Tim Russert, one of the good guys Jun 15, 2008 post a comment » Jun 13, 2008 FORUM: The politics of new roads Jun 11, 2008 Wake me up when it's over Jun 10, 2008 This week's DVD report (June 8) Jun 8, 2008 Wake me up when it's over Jun 6, 2008 High gas prices lead to surge in mass transit Jun 5, 2008 How Safe Is Your Sleep Aid? Jun 4, 2008 Lithurism versus Yankeyism and this P/NDC Madness May 31, 2008 COLUMN: Ted Kennedy: Giants are becoming shadows, one by one May 30, 2008 Mind reading may reveal mother tongue May 26, 2008 VALLEY CENTER: Donation preceded Horn's sprawling housing proposal (671) May 26, 2008 When the Left Was Right May 24, 2008 Star Trek's View of Religion May 24, 2008 McCain's Ambien Use: a Security Threat? May 24, 2008 EDITORIAL: Handled with care May 8, 2008 VIDEO-GAME NEWS: 'Grand Theft Auto' backlash begins May 6, 2008 Secrets and Liza May 4, 2008 Noir At Home May 4, 2008 LSU's Jackson ready to get call from NFL May 2, 2008 Putting Jeremiah Wright and patriotism in perspective May 2, 2008 James Danandjaja: Bringing back Chinese folklore Apr 23, 2008 Symbols of the Me Generation Apr 22, 2008 The Living Legacy of Maggie Thatcher: How the Politics of Conviction Saved Britain Apr 21, 2008 A second summer of love Apr 20, 2008 Bashing victim will always need help, court told Apr 18, 2008 Lauren 'unlikely to fully recover' Apr 17, 2008 Brian Ashton: the 484-day reign Apr 17, 2008 Autism myth lives on Apr 16, 2008 Convicted executives plead for freedom before prison Apr 16, 2008 Key Moran witness can't give evidence Apr 10, 2008 10 things you should know about TV today Apr 8, 2008 Gone missing during a marital split Apr 7, 2008 Propranolol for PTSD Apr 6, 2008 ABSOLUT runs ads celebrating American Southwest belonging to Mexico... Apr 5, 2008 Into Thin Air: Mountain Climbing Kills Brain Cells Apr 4, 2008 MLK Jr. confidant publishes what King might say 40 years later Apr 4, 2008 Ibiza Dumps Ecstasy for Facials as Spanish Party Island Undergoes a Detox Apr 3, 2008 Our New Group Blog Apr 1, 2008 Driving Miss Hillary Apr 1, 2008 What do you think of the hire? Mar 28, 2008 PET Scans Help Detect and Classify Dementia Types Mar 28, 2008 Love & Litigation Mar 26, 2008 Welcome to the Hotel Hiroshima Mar 26, 2008 Former National Century executive tries to discredit witness in $1.9 billion fraud case Mar 25, 2008
Few might enjoy all of Disch, and he always looked forward, even creating a computer text adventure game, Amnesia (1986), not wanting to become somebody who, Norma Desmond-like, haunted conventions in hopes of continued recognition. Beset, however, by Naylor's death in 2005, an upstate home's flooding, a fire, illness and an eviction threat, he shot himself. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
LETTERS: NCT, July 7, 2008 Jul 8, 2008
We have been lied to about this kind of thing so often by now that anyone except people with chronic amnesia just knows that we did, in fact, blow up civilians. Of course, I could be wrong this time, but that's not the point. (North County Times)
In addition, stronger sedation can prolong recovery for the patient and can cause slight amnesia following the procedure, Schmulewitz says. This study is looking at whether coupling Healing Touch with mild sedation prior to an EUS procedure can help relax patients, avoiding problems with anesthesia and making the procedure run more smoothly. (Science Daily)
With clear purpose in mind, they are suddenly afflicted with historical amnesia. These close-minded, amnesic, comatose, blind children of the independence-dodging Nkrumah haters enjoy red-baiting the heavens out of Nkrumah, while hiding behind the falsehood that this administration brought us democracy and Nkrumah was a communist. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Flores seems to have some sort of amnesia when it comes to the cost of welfare and medical costs to support all the illegals. If anyone doesn't think it's one tremendous impact, go to Tri-City at night and see the waiting room full of undocumented aliens. (North County Times)
When the after-effects of three concussions in less than two years aren't enough to scare you away knowing you've become more susceptible to the injury and severe headaches, dizziness and amnesia are part of the package that's an even stronger sign. Passion for football is what prevented quarterback Brett Favre from calling it quits in 2006 after the aging, aching Packer said he would. (Missoulian, MT)
Commentators, including some letter-writers to this paper, who blame the current price of gasoline on Bush and the Republicans seem to have amnesia. On Jan. 1, 2007, when the Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, the average price of gasoline was 2. (Missoulian, MT)
He suffered a concussion, amnesia and a severely bruised shoulder. Yet three weeks later at the U.S. nationals in Fort Lauderdale, he won the consolation final of the 400 IM and qualified for the Pan Am Games. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
" Related Articles I just realized something. None of this matters. A critique of Hancock is an essay in irrelevance. It's Independence Day Week, and six times since 1996, that's meant a Will Smith movie a mega-giga-gigantic hit. Independence Day; Men in Black; Wild Wild West; Men in Black II; I, Robot: He shows up, people line up. Thomas Jefferson used to own this holiday, but now the former Fresh Prince does. So why should critics even bother to review a new Will Smith movie? You'll go see it... (Time.com)
"We (the institute) feel our Canadian history and our story as a country is an important element of what defines us, and to see those elements disappearing from the list . . . it's historical amnesia.". As an example, Confederation - the event that literally formed the Canada we know today - was least popular among the youngest age category, with 290 points. (Canada.com)
Suffering post-traumatic amnesia, he has been asked only a couple of questions and uttered a few words. But when he was asked whether he felt pain, he answered: "No.". (The Age, Australia)
Hailey suffered mild amnesia and third-degree road rash to nearly 25 percent of her body as a result of the accident. She needed 14 skin grafts to replace her lost tissue and she received metal plates where the heels of her feet had been scrapped away by the road. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Early Bird wrote on Jun 26, 2008 4:56 AM:" Isn't it amazing how these threads evolve into something totally unrelated to the original idea put forth?Having said that, does anyone else find it rather odd that the after years of complaining about Bill Clinton's infidelity, the very same folks have come down with a bad case of amnesia regarding John McCain's philandering past?Those on the left justified Clinton's behavior by pointing out that it was a private affair.These are the same folks that... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Sister Amnesia, who can t remember her name (or much else for that matter), is played by Bill Wolfe, a veteran to the Stony Point Player stage. Wolfe played in The Country Blue Boys band for several years and currently plays with Endless Summer which recently played for Mason City s Friday Night Live. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
She started out playing Sister Mary Amnesia, later graduating to the role of Mother Superior. "Dody had the most impeccable comic timing," Goggin said. (NBCSandiego.com, CA)
Maybe the governor's retreat from health coverage for all is a symptom of deficit-induced amnesia, but it's the people of California who are put at risk by his proposals. The Legislature has acted to restore some, but not all, of the governor's proposed reductions. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
xdfred wrote on Jun 16, 2008 10:11 AM:" Gee, Cross, I'm glad you explained what Clayson's letter is about in your first paragraph. I'm pretty sure the left wingers on this board couldn't figure that out by themselves. And then you say Clayson objects to liberals. Wow. Master of the obvious. I object to liberals. Liberals have selective amnesia about the Iraq war, and no accountability for the failures they, as do-gooders, force on the rest of us. Gun control, the destruction of marriage,... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Part of this loss comes from what the researchers call environmental generational amnesia ... "This problem of environmental generational amnesia is particularly important for children coming of age with current technologies," said Rachel Severson, a co-author of the study and a UW psychology doctoral student. (Science Daily)
-Central nervous system: coma, seizures, amnesia, paralysis. -Respiratory system damage. (Globe and Mail)
nothing is so shocking anymore, so it is easier to come out into public view and not deter the folks at the top from simply changing their corporate name, and letting American amnesia run its course. --Lisa. (Slate)
While not many coastal residents along the Southeastern United States will forget the experience of living through a hurricane, as the 2008 season approaches many may be experiencing a case of amnesia about the most basic preparedness strategies, according to a new survey from Allstate. While 24-44 percent of survey respondents from five areas in the Southeast declared they are very prepared, and 34-47 percent felt they are fairly prepared for a hurricane right now, they may be less prepared... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Russert's specialty -- unearthing an ancient quote that contradicts the current position of the "Meet the Press" guest -- sometimes had a shallow "gotcha" quality, but it also could be a potent antidote to the historical amnesia that afflicts so many in public life. A Russert "Meet the Press" interview also boasted a welcome level of civility that was at odds with the red-meat rants that have too often become the norm on cable television. (Salon)
Perhaps it is the binding of truth with chains of censorship that encourage such mass amnesia. Canada, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and India In other words, the nations of the British Commonwealth, against whom we fought two wars to establish our freedoms and become an independent nation, the Germans, against whom we fought two wars to defend our freedoms and forestall empire and tyranny, and the French, who one would think would understand our libertine... (International Herald Tribune)
I dont know why everyone has such amnesia, but nine or so months ago all of us were evacuating VC and bitching that the roads were clogged ... we are getting reports that exposure of this kind leads to amnesia or dementia and even paranoia ... Bob, this is a classical case of amnesia Im afraid. (North County Times)
I'm weary of female political pundits with gender-bias amnesia. Despite the cosmetic procedures required for broadcast-hers, it's clear many are pushing "cougar" and have stories of their own. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
As the creators admit in this frills-free set's lone extra, the reason the outlandish story lines that were often used on the show - alien abduction, amnesia, demonic possession - actually worked was that the actors made you care about the characters. Never mind that none of them looked like they could possibly be related, the mostly theater-trained cast could turn on a banana peel from silly to grave with exceptional grace. (Boston Globe)
I'm weary of female political pundits with gender bias amnesia. Despite the cosmetic procedures required for broadcast-hers, it's clear many are pushing "cougar" and have stories of their own. (Boston Globe)
Harry Potter wrote on Jun 4, 2008 6:00 PM:" When it come to Papa (Prescott) Bush's involvement with the German Nazi party, all of the Bush apologists get amnesia, or at the very best go into a state of total denial. It's all documented, and is backed by governments documents that have been declassified. You could show photos of old Prescott sitting on Hitler's lap and people like Tom Andres, gringa and all of the others right wing fanatics on this site would claim they were doctored. LOL! " ...... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Overuse of alcohol may cause a blackout, which may be similar to the amnesia that modern day sleeping pills cause. Patients should be warned, but not scared out of taking an appropriate medication. (Fox News)
And, of course, our destiny includes the imperative need not to accept imposed political amnesia as being integral to Fourth-Republican democratic culture. More on the foregoing in due course. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Rotty wrote on May 28, 2008 11:46 PM:" Amnesia, eugene?Ask, mjgtm.I'm sure it could remind you of your glorious reunions & interludes.Welcome back, Dally.Guess Toddy's chances just dropped a few more %s.Were the inmates allowed a couple of hours of computer time, tonight? ". Early Bird wrote on May 29, 2008 5:16 AM:" Just an idea here, Dally, but I suspect you're doing Reardon more harm than good with your childlike messages on here. ". (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Proverbio, who led the study, said such research could help doctors communicate with patients suffering from amnesia or diseases that impair speech. It could also be of use one day in questioning refugee applicants or terror suspects to determine their origin, she said. (MSNBC -- Environment)
valley girl wrote on May 25, 2008 12:52 PM:apparently smoke causes amnesia. also paranoia. (North County Times)
Prepare for another aphasiac episode in what Gore Vidal calls the United States of Amnesia. But I say to hell with Ayers and Dohrn. (The American Conservative)
Dr. McCoy entered the covenant with the Yonadans in "The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" and Captain Kirk, after suffering amnesia, joined the tribe of aborginal believers in "The Paradise Syndrome," although in each case as a consequence of love and marriage. At the end of each episode, however, they both regained their perspective, rejected the false gods and in these cases fixed the computers that were involved. (Suite101.com)
"Taking more than the recommended dosage of Ambien or combining it with other sedative-hypnotics for example, alcohol may result in amnesia, fugue states and sleep walking," said Dr. Peter A. Fotinakes, medical director of the St. Joseph Sleep Disorders Center in Orange, Calif. "Used appropriately, Ambien is a relatively safe medication.". (ABC News)
But he owes his constituents something more: an explanation that doesn't include amnesia. SHARE THIS STORY. (Nola.com -- Sports)
" __ _BOURNE TO LOSE: The biggest mystery about Sierra's forthcoming "The Bourne Conspiracy" game: Why doesn't Jason Bourne look anything like Matt Damon? "I lobbied hard (with Sierra) to not make a first-person shooter game but to make it more like 'Myst,' which was a great, interesting puzzle you tried to solve you know, to play with his amnesia or his memory," Damon told The Boston Globe. "They weren't interested. They made the video game anyway, without my likeness. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
I wondered at times if the encephalitis had left her with a certain degree of amnesia; certainly the way she described her childhood to me bore no relation to the account given in numerous biographies of her and her mother. Despite growing up in the heart of Hollywood, she claims 'we were brought up to be as normal as possible. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
According to Peter Plate, whose books are no-holds-barred street-level excursions into the city's psycho-geography, "San Francisco is a city of light and darkness. A historical town that revels in amnesia. It's a time bomb of poverty and wealth. The perfect canvas for the new noir. For every skyscraper, there's a tenement. For each yuppie, there's a wino on Market Street. The contradictions are brutal. You have to write about them.". That's certainly true for Oakland "street lit" author Renay... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
He had played there in high school, too, once intercepting JaMarcus Russell in the end zone, a play Jackson joked Russell has developed complete amnesia. Russell and Jackson were two of the recruiting plums Saban plucked from Alabama in LSU's great class of 2004, when LSU was coning off its first BCS championship. (Nola.com -- Sports)
As a people, we are in great danger because of our poor short-term memories; our state of perpetual amnesia puts our fragile democracy at risk. Imagine, for example, what it was like for the parents and grandparents of Rev. Wright growing up in the 1920s. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
"For more than three decades, Chinese descendants were forced to forget their roots. Some of them suffered a type of 'amnesia' ... folklores could be used to cure this amnesia," James said. To help preserve traditions, James suggested Chinese descendants contribute their works to the whole nation -- or even the world -- rather than focusing on their own groups. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
However, for many people, the 1970s served as an era of "cultural amnesia" to forget about social change and to have fun--and lots of it. The disturbing political climate of the 1970s, which included Watergate, the Iranian hostage crisis, and escalating gas prices, encouraged many people to retreat further away from concerns about public life and focus on individual enjoyment. (Suite101.com)
The findings are no doubt due in part to the historical amnesia that afflicts our age; Winston Churchill is as distant to most voters today as Henry VIII, or any of the wives he discarded to obscurity, or dispatched to the guillotine in his obsessive pursuit of an heir ... The findings are no doubt due in part to the historical amnesia that afflicts our age; Winston Churchill is as distant to most voters today as Henry VIII, or any of the wives he discarded to obscurity, or dispatched to the... (Townhall.com)
Myself, Nicky Holloway, Johnny Walker and Paul Oakenfold had a complete revelation in Amnesia the summer before and were totally inspired. I had a crystal-clear vision of what I wanted to create back in England, and I'm sure the others both felt the same. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Dr Gurka said that for the first three months Ms Huxley suffered post-traumatic amnesia and slowly regained her mobility, relearning to feed and dress herself. Within seven months she had recovered enough to return home. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Joseph Gurka told the jury Ms Huxley was entirely dependent and remained in a state of post-traumatic amnesia for three months. "[This] indicated a severely traumatic brain injury impairing function and day-to-day memory," Dr Gurka said. (Sydney Morning Herald)
His captain, Phil Vickery, asked Ashton recently if they had all been suffering from amnesia. Had they not in fact just beaten Ireland for the first time in five years. (Telegraph.co.uk)
The problem is compounded by "source amnesia," in which people are prone to remember a statement without recalling where they heard it or whether the source was reliable. Presidential candidate John McCain might have fallen prey to source amnesia when he last month. (Yahoo News)
On a phone call with Poulsen recorded by the government, Demmler suggests to Poulsen that Gibson could have amnesia. On March 28, the government announced that one of the five co-defendants, Arizona resident Rebecca Parrett, had disappeared. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
But the court heard Thursday that Mr Wrout, who was also shot during the attack on Mr Moran, was suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. Trial judge Justice Betty King told the jury it had been intended to call Mr Wrout as a prosecution witness, but medical reports showed he would not have been able to assist them. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
It's about Samantha (Christina Applegate), who wakes up from a coma to discover she has amnesia. The full text of this article has 934 words. (Globe and Mail)
THE problem with marriage bust-ups ending up in the Family Court is that all manner of disputed assets have a habit of emerging. And when a wife claims the hubby has pilfered $80,000 worth of her jewellery, it's simply prudent to have another issue or two up the sleeve in case he denies it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
The term amnesia drug has been used to describe propranolol but is in truth a misnomer, as the drug is not thought to make people literally forget. Instead, it is thought to weaken the emotions attached to memories. (Suite101.com)
La Plaza : Los Angeles Times : Mexico reconquers California. Absolut drinks to that. (The Drudge Report)
A climber with HACE may experience amnesia, confusion, -delusions, emotional disturbance, personality changes and loss of consciousness. Features. (Scientific American)
King "would be saddened and disappointed that, 40 years after his death, America still seems to be afflicted by amnesia about the 20th-century treatment of African-Americans," Jones says. "Whatever one may think about Barack Obama, (King) would applaud him for having the courage to go into the living room, the national living room of America, and talk (about) the 800-pound gorilla of race relations sitting in there," Jones says. (USA Today)
A police crackdown on drugs last year led to the temporary closure of the clubs Amnesia, Bora Bora and DC-10, a former aircraft hangar famous for its after-hours revelry. As preparations for this season get under way, Mari has asked local lawmakers to consider banning all-night, after-hours dance parties, where music fans often take ecstacy pills to stay awake. (Bloomberg)
But libertarian conservatives know him to be one of the only Republican members of congress who didn t acquire amnesia of his federalist principles after 9/11, and was and has been a passionate critic of the Patriot Act, overreaching government authority and excessive security measures spawned by successive Republican majorities and President George W. Bush over the last six years. While the Republican establishment was dismissing libertarian conservatives in their ranks like illegitimate... (The American Conservative)
What, dusty, do you have amnesia. McCain set fire to an entire aircraft carrier during NAM. If he hadn t been captured, we might have lost that war. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Tech teams have an aberrant year or two of good teams and all the Technerds develop amnesia about the perennial athletic mediocrity of Tech programs. I know, I know, the mighty fighting Insects claim numerous national championships in football that were awarded them by some newspaper or sports writer, but Tech teams have never won any championships that were decided by head to head competetion. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
An Alzheimer's disease PET pattern was also seen in 79 percent of the mild cognitive impairment patients with multiple cognitive deficits and 31 percent of those with mild cognitive impairment with amnesia. PET findings for subjects with mild cognitive impairment without memory deficits were mixed, ranging from no reductions in glucose metabolism to patterns resembling those seen in frontotemporal dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. (MEDLINEplus)
I promise to not fake amnesia when publicly approached by a woman that I obviously flirted with the last time I was at the sports bar. I promise to not get the telephone numbers of other women knowing that I just might be tempted to call them. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
" So it is with the Hotel Hiroshima. We checked in to a metaphoric Hotel Hiroshima"we" as a cultureon Aug. 6, 1945, when the 16-kiloton atomic weapon detonated about 800 meters over a hospital here. (The hospital wasn't the ostensible target; a nearby bridge was, but needless to say, the hospital and all those in it were vaporized.) Nearly 100,000 people died instantly or within hours from the original blast and the firestorms that followed (by the end of 1945, 140,000 were dead).... (Slate)
Prosecutors say Gibson was promised $500,000 if she could have amnesia when it came time to testify. Gibson pleaded guilty in 2003 to a lesser charge of securities fraud in exchange for helping prosecutors. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
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