Phoenix NewsLocal news for Phoenix, IL continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Alzheimer's: Intimacy found after all is lost- November 17, 2007 "You live in the moment, you live in the setting in which you are located. You don't have the luxury of your past" NEW YORK - A life-shattering disease, Alzheimer's may be cruelest to the devoted spouses who watch their partners slip away from them into dementia. That agony is only compounded when patients embrace new romances with fellow nursing home residents.Few may want to contemplate the problem but many will encounter it, particularly as the 78.2 million American Baby Boomers age, live...http://www.topix.net/city/phoenix-il/2007/11/alzheimers-intimacy-found-after-all-is-lost?f... SIUE student stirs ire of peers with art project- November 15, 2007 "You're exemplifying something that was very hurtful to an entire race of people." Southern Illinois University Edwardsville student David Whitacre caused quite a stir on campus Wednesday by wearing tattered clothes and blackface make-up and standing in a prominent location for two hours.The 20-year-old from St. Louis didn't speak or acknowledge crowds that gathered, even when people hurled questions, comments or insults at him. He held a sign that read, 'I am not a racist.''The reaction was...http://www.topix.net/city/phoenix-il/2007/11/siue-student-stirs-ire-of-peers-with-art-proj... |