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...still imbibes hard liquor ("Jesus drank wine because he didn't have Dewar's," he told ABC's Primetime in March), surrounds himself with beautiful women despite being married, wears a $11,000 Rolex and drives a BMW, and says that for members of his Miami-based Creciendo en Gracia (Growing in Grace) movement, there is no such thing as sin. Over the years, his religious persona has continually evolved: having once claimed to be a kind of John the Baptist figure, then "Jesus Christ, hombre" ("Jesus Christ, the man"), he most recently added the title "antichrist," (although apparently without...
Senior attackman Greg Cohen saved his best for last, scoring a career-high six goals en route to the Harvard win. It was the only time in four years that the Class of 2007 had beaten its rival...
...middle school principal he once was. "Shochu, whatever. If it's alcoholic, I'll drink it." It appears to be working: At 90, the bantam-sized Okamura is still fit for his age and trim everywhere but in the ear lobes. While the other residents in the Yairo-en Special Nursing Home's gleaming rec room watch high-school baseball on TV, Okamura passes the time playing piano, pausing only to pose for a photo. "I look good," he says. "I feel good. It's great here...
...Yoshio Saito believes he has an answer: In 1976, Saito founded the Minami Uonuma Medical and Welfare Center an hour and a half north of Tokyo, and he's run it ever since. Saito's center includes the Yairo-en nursing home and a hospital, but his aim is to keep seniors out of both facilities for as long as possible by providing community care that allows the elderly to continue living in their own homes as long as possible. While they're still relatively healthy, nearby seniors can come to the hospital for day-care and checkups; when they...
...Minami Uonuma City continues to age, Saito's programs may be overwhelmed by demand. His hospital is already $1.2 million in the red, and while the Yairo-en nursing home actually makes money, it's well overbooked, with more people on the waiting list than in the superbly equipped home. The national government has been squeezing health-care subsidies, and Saito worries fears the consequences of millions of Japanese baby boomers reaching retirement age this year. "People like us in the outlying areas are suffering now," he says. "But this will be a major problem in the big cities soon...