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...Granted, change is slow. For this silver-haired population the concept of "dating" is still largely masked by the innocuous rubric ocha nomi tomodachi (friends having tea together). And older people often need help meeting prospective mates. That's where specialized matchmaking services such as Ai Senior - "Love Senior" - come in. The Tokyo company represents 300 clients, aged 50 and up, who are members of a 6,000-person database of eligible elders. When Shunichi Ikeda started the online service three years ago, he was surprised by how many inquiries he was getting from people in their 60s. "I thought...
...been doing work with athletes now for about six years,” said Malissa J. Wood, the senior author on the study and a professor at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General. “[And in my work] there has been this long-questioned concept of the athlete’s heart. Did the athlete always have that type of heart, or did it occur by training...
...translating "It's a Small World" appears to lie in improved special effects and cross-promotional branding. As the Hong Kong ride's water propulsion system nudged our craft past scenes familiar from my childhood - the Taj Mahal, the rainforest, the singing mermaids - it became clear that the basic concept and signature, blocky 1960s motifs of Disney artist Mary Blair had been retained. The Hong Kong sets look more vibrant thanks to lighting techniques, while a more sophisticated sound system belts out "it's a world of hopes; it's a world of tears" in nine languages. The "Asia" component...
Predictably, all three presidential candidates have endorsed the terror-free concept. In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed a measure terminating investment by the state's huge pension funds CalPERS and CalSTERS in companies doing business in Iran. At least 19 states, including New York, New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri and Louisiana, have proposed or passed laws requiring state pension-plan sponsors to divest from firms with business links to terrorism-sponsoring nations...
...Continuing the conversation, I inquired about the "original twelve-to-eighteen-month occupation deployment," because I wasn't sure what he was talking about. It turned out that the investigative team was so thorough, they had actually gone back and looked at the original operational concept that had been prepared by CENTCOM (led by Gen. Franks) before the invasion of Iraq was launched. It was standard procedure to present such a plan, which included such things as: timing for predeployment, deployment, staging for major combat operations, and postdeployment. The concept was briefed up to the highest levels...