With short-term memory, the mind continually cycles fresh information. ...more

March 9, 2009

Alzheimer's patients are very sensitive to changes in their environment. ...more

March 9, 2009

You would like to think that things are not as bad as they seem. Unless you are holed up somewhere in the swamps off the Tamiami Trail and your old rabbit-ears TV has stopped working, that's not so easy to do. ...more

February 22, 2009

My father was the kind of guy who just didn't know how to take a day off or a vacation that actually involved total relaxation. If he didn't have a project (or 20) going, he just wasn't happy. ...more

February 18, 2009

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February 14, 2009

There are laws against scattering someone's ashes any old place you want. That goes for Daytona International Speedway. So everybody turn their head: Ron Hornaday Jr. owes his dad. ...more

February 12, 2009

When Omar Almonte was a teenager growing up in New York, he discovered the art of tagging. Even though he wasn't out spraying graffiti and running away like his friends, he practiced on paper and eventually on a wall in his parents' shed. ...more

February 11, 2009

Ten-year-old Tyler Smith was among more than 3,400 credentialed reporters Super Bowl XLIII week. ...more

February 11, 2009

My son's comment during a recent telephone conversation brought me up short. Both years (he's 43, I'm 67) and miles (he lives in Atlanta, I'm in Florida) separate us, yet we came together in a special moment I will always remember. ...more

February 11, 2009

David Reutimann and crew chief Brian Pattie of Zephyrhills have built David's dad, Buzzie, an open-wheeled modified race car, and they all will be at East Bay Raceway tonight for its debut. ...more

February 8, 2009