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Book Excerpt: Joan Collins on Staying Young
Although the life span for humans may be more than one hundred years, life expectancy is not anticipated to rise much above eighty-five today, even if cures are found for cancer and heart disease. Progressive natural loss of organ functioning puts a biological limit of about eighty-five years on life expectancy. Eliminating heart disease could add three years, and conquering cancer would, on average, add two. It's important to distinguish between life span and life expectancy. Life span is characteristic of a species — two or three years for mice, forty-five years for chimpanzees, and 110 to 120 for humans, although there have been reports of humans living even longer, but most scientists don't believe them. A fifty-year-old woman today has a life expectancy of eighty-five, and if you're younger than fifty you could hit ninety.
Sri Lanka Should Hold Referendum on Merging North, East Regions
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been fighting for two decades for a separate homeland in the north and east in a conflict that has killed more than 60,000 people. Peace talks to try to end an escalation of violence in Sri Lanka since February collapsed last week in Geneva with the government and LTTE unable to agree on a date for new discussions. A peace accord is crucial for the growth of Sri Lanka's tea- and textile-exporting economy, which has expanded every quarter since a cease-fire was signed in 2002. The northern and eastern provinces were merged in 1988 as a temporary measure before a referendum was scheduled to be held in 1989, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on its Web site. A vote has been ``continuously postponed for the last 18 years,'' it said.
A week in the life of Oregon's Josh Tschirgi - Life as college ...
There's no rush for a college student-athlete quite like those three hours on Saturday, when thousands of fans at the stadium, and perhaps hundreds of thousands in front of a television, are emotionally tied to your actions. Quite a life, huh? "People think it's an easy road, a high-profile path to stardom. Everyone thinks it's a free education, when in reality, it's not free at all," said Josh Tschirgi, a Skyview High School graduate and a junior offensive guard at the University of Oregon. Tschirgi once had thoughts like the former himself. Upon accepting a football scholarship from the Ducks in 2003, Tschirgi said he thought college life was "going to be a lot of partying, a lot of football, a lot of girls. Problem is, those things don't intertwine all that well." Tschirgi said it took "a good year and a half" to adjust to life as a college football player.
Chocolate, wine claims too good to be true?
EDMONTON - If you are a chocolate-eating, wine-and-green-tea-swilling health nut, do you live forever because your heart never gives out or do you just end up an overweight, caffeine-addicted, alcoholic? That this is a legitimate question reflects the public's captivation with media reports that pleasurable foods such as chocolate, tea and red wine offer health benefits. Just last week researchers announced that overweight, middle-aged mice fed a molecule in red wine lived longer and experienced a reversal in gene changes associated with diabetes, heart disease and other weight-related problems. Latest study touts red wine Gallery: Good AND good for you? The hunt for superfoods Tips for evaluating medical claims More Body & Health news Several years ago red-wine sales in the U.S.
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