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...life expectancy for Japanese men is 78.56 years, the fourth-longest in the world. But Mitsuru Okamura sped past that age long ago, and if you listen he'll tell you his secret: alcohol. "I enjoy drinking," says Okamura, who still has the posture of the 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...
...Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” has yet to become old, the young Arctic Monkeys have, with “Favourite Worst Nightmare,” done it again. They’ve released another phenomenally listenable album of pounding guitars and even harder (read: more scathing) lyrics. Once again, lead singer and guitarist Alex Turner and the other Monkeys from Sheffield, England, give us a delicious taste of blue-collar anger. This time around, the guitars might be a little louder and the sound a bit fuller...
...helped a lot that there was something for people who were writing blogs to talk about,” he continues. “People knew that they could always find songs; if they came to our site every month there would be four new songs that they could listen to. The collector mentality really kicked in and once people caught on to the pattern it became like a compulsion for a lot of people to constantly keep up with. And that was great.”Once the grunt work was over, offers from labels began to roll...
...with pennies inside. The initial plan for yesterday’s protest—which featured 22 Harvard students along with nearly 50 other people, including students from University of Massachusetts Medical School and Clark University Medical School—was to march up to the building chanting, to listen to several addresses by speakers, and then to send a delegation of people inside to fill a mock prescription for Kaletra for the people of Thailand, which was presumably going to be denied, according to Luke M. Messac ’08. However, the protestors were denied entrance into...
...People listen to music,” Alterovitz said. “People see movies and videos and so forth, and this is a way for people to learn about bioinformatics and some of the new things going on by actually interacting and viewing it through different mediums...