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Profile of Alzheimer’s Researcher Claude Wischik

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Is this man leading us forward in the fight against Alzheimer’s?  I profiled Dr. Claude Wischik, a renowned 63-year-old researcher who’s spent the last 30 years immersed in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. He wants to change the current focus of Alzheimer’s research and he isn’t afraid of stirring controversy to do it.    

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The Latest Singles in America Study

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What can you learn from the latest Singles in America Study – the largest and most comprehensive look at the dating habits, sexual practices, and lifestyles of single men and women ever conducted? I broke the story on Yahoo in February 2013. For the third consecutive year, I analyzed what the study results actually mean…

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DC Dining (Bisnow)

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I guest edited (wrote and photographed) Bisnow’s DC Dining Newsletter.  This is the June 15, 2012 edition.

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60th Anniversary of The Lavender Scare

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On the 60th Anniversary of The Lavender Scare, Don’t Forget About LGBT Employment Discrimination (April 2013) Did you know that this year marks the 60th anniversary of a witch hunt against gays and lesbians that was as aggressive and vicious as any in modern American history? On April 27, 1953, the President of the United…

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Slow Dancing with a Stranger

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Blunt, funny and – make no mistake – not out for sympathy, she’s equal parts Florence Nightingale, Dorothy Zbornak and Norma Rae. That’s how I’d sum up Meryl Comer, author of Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer’s. Read about her in my Caring.com profile and Q&A. After years of…

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