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An Oregon man recently learned he was an $8.9 million lottery winner after checking a forgotten ticket he purchased on Christmas Eve. Wilbur Brown and some friends gathered at the Moose Lodge in Springfield on December 24, when one of his pals purchased a “26 for $25” Megabucks lottery ticket, the Oregon Lottery said in a press release. The ticket allows players to play 26 consecutive drawings by buying a single ticket for $25. After seeing his friend buy one, Brown purchased a ticket for himself. His ticket applied to drawings for 13 weeks, from December 25 – to February...

Getting Forgetful? Then Blueberries May Hold The Key ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2008) — If you are getting forgetful as you get older, then a research team from the University of Reading and the Peninsula Medical School in the Southwest of England may have good news for you They have found that phytochemical-rich foods, such as blueberries, are effective at reversing age-related deficits in memory, according to a study soon to be published in the science journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine. The researchers working at the Schools of Food Biosciences and Psychology in Reading and the Institute of Biomedical and...

SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE Women who are approaching menopause and feel their memories are slipping may be right -- but it's not because their memories are becoming impaired with advancing age, a new study finds. Instead, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center found that there's a link between the complaints of forgetfulness and the way the brains of middle-aged, stressed women learn or encode new data. "It feels like a memory problem, but the cause is different. It feels like you don't remember, but that's because you never really 'learned' the information in the first place," said Mark...

<p>I PROBABLY would have been treated to the same anti-American rhetoric that I saw in Barcelona's anti-war protest Saturday if I'd been at the San Francisco protest Sunday. But I was in Barcelona, where Europhiles tell me I should encounter a more elegant and nuanced approach to world affairs.</p>