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Renae Makris, a certified Dementia Practitioner, deals cards to one of her clients.

Every aging baby boomer listens for the footsteps of Alzheimer's, and for good reason: It's estimated that 10 million American boomers will develop the disease. The need to develop preventative strategies, ideally long before Alzheimer's destructive, clinical symptoms appear, is critical.

Through its annual street corner fundraiser and a separate corporate donation, Bankers Life and Casualty Company is supporting the Alzheimer's Association with over $300,000. Bankers' annual Forget Me Not Days ...

In studying how animals change size as they evolve, biologists have unearthed several interesting patterns. For instance, most species are small, but the largest members of a taxonomic group -- such as the great white shark, the Komodo dragon, or the African elephant -- are often thousands or millions of times bigger than the typical species. Now for the first time researchers explain these patterns within an elegant statistical framework.

Jolene Logemann Brackey, Woden Crystal Lake class of 1988, public speaker and author of Creating Moments of Joy, has come a long way since graduation, but in all the ways that count she is the same old small ...