Some news references:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1215243,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/health/17alzheimer.html?ex=1153281600&en=d6b843e3a138073d&ei=5087%0A

The latter requires registration. They have not abused mine to the best of my knowledge, but for those who prefer to avoid that, there is:

http://www.bugmenot.com/.  I have only used it once myself, but it has been recommended by tiferet [EDIT and by dkogan, below].

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Recently, several of my FL have posted the Hugos meme
Partial list:
stoutfellow  http://stoutfellow.livejournal.com/184143.html
sebastian_tombs  http://sebastian-tombs.livejournal.com/210595.html
kd5mdk  http://kd5mdk.livejournal.com/134564.html

I started reading SF before there were Hugos; my greatest unfamiliarity is at this end.   I won't post the list here - I might some day.  But the list brought an issue to mind that connected with something else. ( cut for SF to philosophy to ethics ramble )