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Elderly Weight Loss May Signal Dementia

Losing weight late in life may indicate that the brain is inching toward dementia (search). A long-term study shows that elderly men with dementia lost nearly 10 percent of their body weight a few years before their dementia diagnosis. The report appears in the January issue of Archives of Neurology. …

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Crude Climbs 5 Percent Amid Heating Oil Rally

NEW YORK – Oil prices rose more than $2 on Thursday as fund-buying and a rally in heating oil reversed two weeks worth of losses that had been triggered by a stretch of mild U.S. winter weather. U.S. light crude (search) settled up $2.17 to $45.56 a barrel, bringing it …

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IAEA: Egypt Produced Nuclear Material

VIENNA, Austria – The U.N. atomic watchdog agency has found evidence of secret nuclear experiments in Egypt that could be used in weapons programs, diplomats said Tuesday. The diplomats told The Associated Press that most of the work was carried out in the 1980s and 1990s but said the International …

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