Word: blinks
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...quieter news is that while immortality is beyond us, that 125-year life-span is still out there beckoning. Eliminating the dietary and lifestyle habits that are setting you up for the heart attack that is going to kill you at 50 can, in a blink, extend your life by decades. Doing the same thing on a global level--and throwing in progress on disease treatment too--can cause the life expectancy of the entire species to inch further and further out. There are about 50,000 centenarians in the U.S.--a blip in a country of close...
...third-graders have taped Mike's photograph to the chalkboard. One girl gasps when he walks in, several blink to make sure he's actually real. They all want his autograph in their notebooks and on stray math work sheets. "Will you sign my baseball?" asks one boy. Then the students take turns standing next to Mike and reading aloud Christmas cards they have made for him to take back to the firehouse...
...Hollywood to write a musical for Douglas Fairbanks, "Reaching for the Moon," and after discouraging previews the studio had cut most of the songs. "I developed the damnedest feelings of inferiority," Berlin said. "I got so I called in anybody to listen to my songs - stockroom boys, secretaries. One blink of an eye and I was stuck...
...pursuit of the moral triviality that is Gary Condit - and, like a senior citizen finding solace in the distant past, rekindles that old feeling. In pop culture, at least for a while, many Americans traded in cool pop culture for warm, sarcasm for sentiment, alienation for community. In the blink of a national tragedy, we went from jaded to nice, just like that...
...also get some new holiday related cheer from other TRL regulars. Blink-182’s “I Won’t Be Home For Christmas” complains, “It’s Christmas time, again / It’s time to be nice to the people you can’t stand all year / I’m growing tired of all this Christmas cheer,” in traditional Blink-182 sing-song fashion. Smash Mouth and ’NSYNC also make their standard contributions. But as well as these songs...