Searching for the cure

San Diego Alzheimer's Researcher struggles to remember where he placed notes containing breakthrough on devastating disease.

Author

By Walter Mencken

Publish Date

Jan. 4, 2015

The absent-minded professor is sure he left the cure to Alzheimer's somewhere in this building.

"I'm sure I had them when I came to work this morning," said Professor X (who declined to be identified). "But now I can't remember where I went after I got my coffee. Oh, man. This is terrible. If I can't find those notes, it will be the biggest setback in Alzheimer's research since Congress forgot to give us more than one-tenth of what they give to those jokers over in Cancer."