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...Duffy has been publishing poetry since the age of 16 and is professor of poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University's Writing School...
Someone at technology news site, Cnet, came up with the clever idea of running a poll to learn the age of people who use Amazon's miracle book reader, the Kindle. Seven hundred people responded, which puts the survey somewhat below what researchers would expect from Gallup, but it is a reasonable straw poll, nonetheless...
...What marketers still don't talk about is that old people with money are the largest consumers of a number of things besides multivitamins and sweaters. According to Forbes, the average age of the people who buy the extremely expensive and fast Porsche 911 is 51 years old. Their median annual income is $390,000. That means that a great many of the people driving dangerously fast cars are in their late fifties and their sixties. Trying to sell Porsches to people under 40 is probably a waste of money, especially now that almost all of the hedge fund managers...
...deaths than other risk factors like high blood pressure or being overweight—said he was surprised by the “magnitude” of the problem. “Smoking effects account for about 1 in 5 deaths in Americans who are over 30 years of age,” he said. Ezzati attributed potential solutions to the problem just as much to policy-making as to individual actions. “Individuals don’t just randomly smoke or stop smoking. They do it because things happen around them, and those things could be higher...
...first global art style. From France and Italy it spread to the rest of Europe and beyond. Sculptors, designers and painters of the day took the art of Greece and Rome and made it their own: bigger, better and more vulgar. "Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence," at London's Victoria & Albert Museum until July 19, seeks to unravel Baroque's complexities while celebrating its influence across the globe. The show captures the opulence of the era by presenting key decorative objects - from silver furniture to theater costumes - alongside images of cathedrals, and reconstructions of performances...