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...Anne (Grandma Luge) Abernathy of the U.S. Virgin Islands, competing in her sixth Games--the oldest female Winter Olympian ever...
...last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Tyler Perry played Madea, a gun-toting grandma. She returns this month in Madea's Family Reunion...
...dusty village of At Samart, Ouan Poysomboon, 73, recalls her recent encounter with the man who has led Thailand for the past five years. Earlier this month Thaksin camped out for a week in the area, bringing an entourage of officials and reporters to tape a reality-TV show. Grandma Ouan was selected for a personal audience with Thaksin. She says she told him how she struggled to survive on $5 a week while paying off debts of $5,000 incurred by her two sons, both of whom were killed in a Bangkok traffic accident: "I asked...
...Bangkok-opposition politicians, academics and journalists-it's common to hear his administration accused of abuse of power, corruption and nepotism. But in the smaller cities and towns-and especially in the countryside-Thaksin remains hugely popular, seen as a decisive leader who cares about the poor. It was Grandma Ouan and millions like her who gave Thaksin and his Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) party that big win last year. Yet though the demonstrations are unlikely to bring Thaksin down, they could hobble his second term in office. Says Kasit Piromya, former Thai ambassador...
Luckily, we also live in an era in which research is showing us how to nurture and maintain our mental faculties?from infancy through the golden years?and how to deter what was once seen as an inevitable decline. Some new findings confirm what we have always suspected: Grandma was right?fish really is brain food; a steaming cup of joe actually does turbocharge our mental acuity; getting less than eight hours of sleep seriously compromises our ability to concentrate and solve problems...