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• Kids of centenarians live longer, healthier lives
... reasons that longevity runs in families and that centenarian offspring are more likely to age in better cardiovascular health and with a lower mortality than their peers," the researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The ...
• Vick back in Virginia to face state charges
The plea would resolve his last pending criminal charges, and his lawyers hope would make him eligible for early release from prison into a halfway house designed to ease he return to society. Only prisoners with no outstanding charges are eligible ...
• Mukasey feeling better, checks out of hospital
Mukasey's collapse during an appearance before The Federalist Society evoked memories of similar frightening episodes, including then-Commerce Secretary William Daly's plunge from a stage at the Old Executive Office Building during the Clinton ...
• EarthTalk: Eco-clubs and Bush's legacy
Roszak argues that humans can heal what he calls their “psychological alienation” from nature and build a more sustainable society if they recognize that we all have an innate emotional bond with the natural world. The basic premise is that we ...
• Investigation ties pet chain to puppy mills
After an eight-month investigation, the Humane Society of the United States accused Petland, the national pet store chain, of selling dogs bred under appalling conditions at puppy mills around the country. The animal protection group made the charges ...