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...full pension from 37.5 years to 40. That would largely bring public sector pension requisites into line with those governing the private sector. Unions, however, note that even the accords signed in 2003 are up for review next spring, and many expect the private sector time requirements will lengthen further...
...David, a soccer star and clotheshorse, has signed a huge contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy team--graced TV screens on July 16 in a reality show about her family's new life. It is fair to say that her useful insights--"High heels are good because they really lengthen you out"--did not win over all viewers. The show, sniffed the New York Times, "tests the American market's seemingly insatiable demand for rich, idiotic It girls." But the real point of the Beckhams' arrival is that it solidifies the mutual love affair between British celebs...
...help prevent heart disease. But it was not always a closed case, at least not scientifically. In the 1960s, Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger Jr. set out to prove just that. In a pioneering study that tracked exercise and health, Paffenbarger and colleagues found that vigorous exercise could indeed lengthen life expectancy and combat chronic disease. Paffenbarger would also conclude that the benefits of exercise could be had even when starting late in life. The researcher practiced what he preached: at age 45, the once sedentary Paffenbarger, who died at 84, became a long-distance runner and eventually...
...cites the results of the referendum recently conducted by the UC, during which 2,914 students—constituting 43.4 percent of the undergraduate population and 84 percent of those voting—cast their lot in favor of a calendar configuration that would put fall exams before Christmas, lengthen winter break, and end the school year a week and a half earlier than at present. Bok did not downplay the results of the referendum in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson a few days ago. He wrote that “the results will represent a significant factor...
...grow in response to estrogen, half a dozen drugs, beginning with tamoxifen, introduced in the late '70s, work by blocking that hormone. Such drugs prevent cancer recurrences for 10 years or more in 50% of women with estrogen-sensitive tumors. Even for those with metastatic disease, hormone therapy can lengthen life and frequently will be more effective than chemotherapy. (Edwards told TIME, however, that her cancer was only slightly sensitive to estrogen, though she's waiting for new biopsy results to reveal "what receptors and markers I have...