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...Even if they aren't punching the clock, however, many Japanese seniors find alternative ways to contribute. Salaryman Masamichi Hagiwara wasn't ready to become a "window-sitter" when he reached his company's mandatory retirement age of 57. "I was still able to work every day," says Hagiwara, who spent 30 years developing better feed for fish farming. So he enlisted with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which sent him for a two-year stint to teach fish farming in the mountains of Honduras. When that was finished, he re-upped for a tour in Malaysia and then...
...they support the terrorist atrocities that are perpetrated daily by followers of al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, but many still regard attacks against U.S. and Iraqi troops as legitimate resistance. At the Abu Hanifa mosque, the most prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad, a banner hangs from the clock tower calling on worshippers to pray in the name of Muhammad, imam of the mujahedin. Over the door to the main prayer hall, another banner paraphrases the Koran, exhorting God to deliver the faithful from the infidels--a not-so-subtle call to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq. Says...
...promises you will hear from antiaging practitioners are going to become more extravagant in the coming years. A number of hard-core molecular biologists claim to have identified genetic mechanisms that control the aging process as well as ways of manipulating them. These researchers believe that the biological clock can be stopped or turned back, and as antiaging doctors learn about this work, they will use it to their advantage...
...near her own goal, her coach called from the sideline, much to the amusement of the crowd, “Don’t play that ball ever again, please!”—the match grew more animated and physical as the seconds ticked off the clock...
Curiously enough, all it took was six members of the school board in Dover, Penn. to turn the clock of scientific progress back to the 18th century...