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...certainly need them. For as medical science adds years to our collective lives, we chip away at them by doing things--stewing at our desk jobs, eating fatty processed foods, blowing a gasket in a freeway traffic jam, exercising no more than our fingers at the computer--that centenarians can't imagine. Most of them were born into an America as remote from today's metaphorically as the craggy villages of Sardinia, Okinawa and Nova Scotia are geographically. In the early 1900s people walked miles to work not by choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Live To Be 100 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...Olympic facilities are excellent; even the journalists have been cared for, operating out of a press center more sumptuously appointed than many of the offices they come from. And the staff are helpful and interested: "Where are you from?" asks a strikingly beautiful girl at the accreditation desk. "Australia." "Oh, like everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Aussie Pool Party | 8/25/2004 | See Source »

...months ago that the CIA was in "dysfunctional denial" about the need for reform. If Bush is re-elected, Goss should have at least four years to prove he can transform the agency. If Kerry wins, Goss will probably have only enough time at Langley to get his desk set up. --By Douglas Waller. With reporting by Timothy J. Burger/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The CIA: An Old Spy Comes In from the Hill | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...have always created a daily log, but it was only on the [HUPD] front desk,” Catalano said, referring to the printed log available at HUPD’s offices located at 1033 Mass. Ave. “We just decided to now put the daily log on the website...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log To Go Online | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...Updates are only reflected in the log on the front desk,” Catalano said...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log To Go Online | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

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