Ever the blind optimist, before the surgery began he assured me that in a few years, the aneurysm would just be a memory, a footnote to my much longer, larger life story.

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"It could be just a memory, " Mr. Mesanko said.

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Families may be in denial or assume that memory problems are just a normal part of aging, while patients may be terrified of losing their ability to live independently.

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Only an aggressive push to find a fit that can be leveraged will save it from becoming just another fond brand memory.

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The authors said the test can be used to distinguish between those patients with the disease and those whose memory is just showing signs of ageing.

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Equipped with 2GB flash memory, it can hold more than a thousand of books and its capacity can be easily expanded just by adding a MicroSD card.

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While technologies such as Solidcore (just acquired by McAfee) can be installed to make a Windows machine impervious to attack via essentially randomizing memory and system call registries and other randomizing in the network can add to the investment at attacker must make to be successful, there is one area that is ripe for exploration.

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