[PN] Bilingualism can slow effects of aging (15 June 2004)

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* Periodical articles

Bilingualism May Keep the Mind Young
By Jennifer Warner, WebMD Medical News
SOURCES: Bialystock, E. Psychology and Aging, June 2004; vol 19: pp 290-303. News release, American Psychological Association
"A new study shows that being fluent in two languages may help prevent 
some of the effects of aging on brain function."
[As someone using Japanese in everyday life, including reading and writing the Chinese characters, this is the best news I've read in 
a long time :) - Ed.]
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/88/100087.htm

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
By DOUG THOMPSON, Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
[Warning: Bush's expletives are not deleted - Ed.]
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4636.shtml

'Barbarous thinking comes easily, and right-wingers fuel fire'
 Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor of economics; director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
The Miami Herald, Information Clearning House, 11 June 2004
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6309.htm

Is U.S. like Germany of the '30s?
(Father) Andrew Greeley, Chicago Sun-Times, 11 June 2004
http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel11.html

The Gaza Trip: The Vacuity of the Sharon Withdrawal Plan from Gaza
By Uri Avnery, AlterNet, 10 June 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18916

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
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