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"If I was in a family that had the familial form of Alzheimer's ... I would definitely be taking in 500 milligrams of caffeine a day"

8 July 2009

“If I was in a family that had the familial form of Alzheimer’s – where half of individuals have it by age 60 – I would definitely be taking in 500 milligrams of caffeine a day and I would be doing it in coffee.”

Gary Arendash at the University of South Florida, on his study suggesting that coffee might reverse Alzheimer’s memory problems (ABC news, 6 July)

“Why do we want to go back to the moon?”

We should concentrate on Mars instead, said Buzz Aldrin, speaking at London’s Southbank Centre to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings (Daily…

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