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Bilingualism may buffer against Alzheimer’s (CBC News Video)
Bilingualism may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, a brain scanning study suggests. The study by Canadian researchers in the journal Cortex offers the first physical evidence that speaking more...
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Turkey considers Syria buffer zone; Annan seeks unity.
Turkey said on Friday it might set up a “buffer zone” inside Syria to protect refugees fleeing President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, raising the prospect of foreign intervention in the year-long revolt....
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Continuous Turkish artillery barrage cuts out 10-km buffer strip inside Syria.
Constrained from a substantial military incursion into Syria by US President Barack Obama’s veto and Saudi and Qatari refusals to help pay for it, Turkey’s government and military decided to make do...
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Fed delays Basel III bank capital buffer rules
U.S. regulators on Friday delayed the effective date of a global agreement on greater bank capital buffers reached in response to the financial crisis of 2008. WT news feed
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‘Israel considers building buffer zone inside Syria’
“A buffer zone set up with the co-operation of local villagers lies at the heart of the plan. If the country remains unstable we might have to stay there for years,” The Times quoted a military planner...
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