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...engagements each month until she was midway into her 80s. She was patron or president of more than 300 organizations. And in recent years, she kept up an amazing public and private schedule for a person her age: she attended a performance of the Royal Ballet on her 101st birthday, reveling as the orchestra played and audience sang "Happy Birthday." In the last weeks of her life, she even hosted a small party on the occasion of the Cheltenham races at her Windsor residence...
...night of her 21st birthday, Jones sang for a crowd that included Shell White, a music-industry accountant. White was so moved by Jones' voice that she approached the young singer and, while admitting she had no management experience, asked if she could make it her personal mission to get Jones signed. White e-mailed Lundvall, and after playing him a demo that included covers of the vocally challenging standards Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most and Walking My Baby Back Home, White had accomplished her mission...
...family responsibilities? If so, then Dr. Ken Dychtwald can help you." Accidentally, a company that makes self-help tapes had sent him an ad for a set that he himself had recorded. Dychtwald laughed off the incident. But two years ago, as he prepared to celebrate his 50th birthday, Dychtwald realized that he really did need his own advice...
...American Express and Chrysler that were trying to redesign their products for aging consumers. But after watching these companies make money on his ideas, he thought he should be capitalizing on them himself. In his 40s, he launched marketing and publishing ventures. It was just before his 50th birthday, when the most ambitious of these businesses failed, that he realized how the pursuit of fame and fortune was hurting...
...Japan withholds this consent like a zealot withholds an admission of doubt. At the political level there is no provision for dual nationality in adulthood, so on his or her twentieth birthday our child must go through the ritual of renouncing British citizenship in the eyes of Japanese law?while retaining both European Union and Japanese citizenship in the eyes of British law. On a civic level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park...