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...some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping an abstemious diet; engaging in regular exercise; and, if you're an unusual Frenchwoman, smoking cigarettes until you are 117 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Longevity Personality? | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...scatterings and ash burials in public gardens, but longstanding tradition prevents most families from taking up these space-saving solutions. "My husband didn't say much," says Wong's 75-year-old mother, Oi Tak-lo. "But he did say that he didn't want a sea burial. The older generation won't agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hong Kong, Even the Dead Wait in Line | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...family can renew for another decade, or exhume the remains and yield the plot to someone else. Some residents have sent bodies abroad to bury, particularly in the U.S. and Canada, or looked across the border to China, but the journey to visit such graves can be taxing for older relatives. Jockeying for burial space in Hong Kong has become so intense that last year 18 cemetery supervisors were arrested for allegedly accepting bribes in order to exhume remains before they had fully decomposed. (See a map of population density in Chinese cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hong Kong, Even the Dead Wait in Line | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...Efron, 21, dances, plays basketball and does comedy, romance and a pretty decent crying scene. His core audience came out to see him; but then, for them, attendance this weekend was mandatory. For Efron to have a sure shot at a long career, he has to hope that their older siblings and parents check the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Report: Zac to the Future! | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...season, and one minute later, senior attacker Jeff Wannop scored his first and the team’s final goal of the game, for a final score of 11-4. Cohen’s six goals were the most in a game by a Crimson player since his older brother Greg Cohen ’07 scored six against Dartmouth in 2007. “In the first half, we were shooting high, and [Harrison] was pretty tall and getting a lot of saves,” Cohen said. “At halftime, coach told us to shoot...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Snaps Losing Streak With Big Win | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

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