Turns out doing crossword puzzles can stave off some of the effects of Alzheimer's.

We know that such empowerment of women helps stave off extremist thought and action. That includes the scourge of terrorism.

At Number 10 Downing Street, David Cameron is trying to work out whether to cut more public sector jobs in order to stave off a double dip recession.

When they do do intentional physical activity, it's the things they enjoy. They tend to walk, the only proven way to stave off cognitive decline, and they all tend to have a garden.

It is vital that alternative income generating sources be generated to stave off relocations and the creation of internally displaced persons, and to ensure the success and sustainability of the opium reduction programme.

NAIROBI Families trapped by the fighting in Syria are reportedly eating salads made of leaves and grass to stave off hunger. According to the United Nations refugee agency, more than two million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries.

DUBLIN Europe s needs and Europeans desires are at odds. At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.

While recourse to the ICJ very often makes it possible to resolve peacefully differences among States and to dispel tensions and stave off the spectre of war, failure to implement its judgments can have serious consequences for international peace and security.

The current government in Ukraine has an unprecedented electoral mandate for change. It has also drawn into public service some of the country s best and brightest (including from the Ukrainian diaspora) to fight a war and stave off an economic meltdown simultaneously.

Ukraine needs an immediate cash injection of, say, 20 billion, with a promise of more when needed, in order to stave off a financial collapse. The International Monetary Fund could provide these funds, as it did previously, with the EU promising to match the IMF s contribution.

India s ability to stave off the economic gales was helped by the fact that it is much less dependent than most countries on global flows of trade and capital. India relies on external trade for about 20 of its GDP (the figure for China is roughly double).

So, even if the Fed and US Treasury now manage to stave off recession, what will fuel future growth? With debt burdens elevated and housing prices significantly above levels warranted by their historical relation to income, the business cycle of the last two decades appears exhausted.

But, in order to stave off the threat of deflation and depression, it is targeting a lower unemployment rate, below 6.5 . As progress toward that target is made, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced in late May, the Fed will begin to taper its program of long term asset purchases known as quantitative easing (QE).

The struggle to mold our future, to stave off the humanitarian disasters of war, disease, and starvation leaves little room to be philosophical about our place on this crumb of cosmic dust. But many scientists, including me, have a sense that the universe might be about to reach in and give us a metaphorical slap in the face.

This changed when then Party leader Jiang Zemin and his prime minister, Zhu Rongji, centralized authority in order to stave off economic crisis at a time of growing risk to China s banks. In the process, the labor force of China s state enterprises declined by 50 million, China lost 25 million manufacturing jobs, and central government employment was slashed.

Many observers portray Raúl Castro, Fidel s younger brother and designated heir, as a pragmatist the practical Castro. When Cuba s lavish Soviet subsidies vanished in the early 1990 s, it was Raúl who recognized that the regime s survival required economic reforms, pressing to allow private agricultural markets to reopen in order to boost food production and stave off possible starvation.

Thus, although Obama also inherited two ongoing wars, nuclear proliferation threats from Iran and North Korea, and the continuing problem of Al Qaeda s terrorism, his early months in office were devoted to addressing the economic crisis at home and abroad. His efforts were not a complete success, but he managed to stave off the worst outcome.

Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession. But even if the Fed does not admit it in its forecasts, the price of this insurance policy will almost certainly be higher inflation down the road, and perhaps for several years.

Even in the United States, one of the few places where economic liberalization is not a dirty word, President George W. Bush has his own frustrations. Despite a huge investment of time and energy, he has failed to marshal even his own troops in support of a relatively modest proposal to stave off collapse of the nation s old age insurance program.