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...TIME: Your character in Little Miss Sunshine liked to tell his teenage grandson to sleep with as many girls as possible. What practical advice do you like to give your grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Alan Arkin | 12/21/2006 | See Source »

...life expectancy at birth, as an African American girl, was less than 40. But she lived in the age of invention, of penicillin, vaccines, x-rays, cat scans, lived in the century when life expectancy doubled. She was hardly ever sick, her grandchildren said, until a stroke two years ago left her unable to tell her stories anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living to 116 | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...That family could populate a decent-sized town. She had seven children, 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great-grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great-grandchildren. Imagine trying to remember the birthdays. Picture Thanksgiving dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living to 116 | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...babies died, not because we've found the cure for aging. If rates of obesity keep rising, some experts think we'll soon be dying younger. But if you believe the apostles of what is modestly called "the immortalist movement," it's easy to imagine that our children and grandchildren will routinely live well into a second century - living well being the next great challenge. The Methuselah Foundation has established a $4 million prize for the scientist who develops the longest-living mouse as the first step in clock-stopping. "When aging in mice is shown to be 'treatable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living to 116 | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...wife] always says, if I go any further back I'll fall over." Paul, the second charity case, went to Australia and worked as a laborer. He married Susan, a hairdresser, and had two kids, one of whom went to university, the other of whom gave them two grandchildren. Paul never gained a sense of self; in one episode he asked, "Why would Susan want to be with someone as boring as me?" And when Apted quizzed Susan on what attracted her to Paul, she replied, "His helplessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up With the Seven Up | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

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