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...WORLD'S OLDEST LIVING CELEBRITIES. HOW HAVE YOU AVOIDED THAT PITFALL? I'm not a great self-analyst, but the only secret is just being interested in new things and being interested in moving on. I think I've always reached out for expansion. I've kept working, I've kept learning. Let's say you keep a piece of clay or something. You just have to keep shaping it, molding it. And hopefully it gets better and better. I like to think I'm a better person now than I was 20, 30, 40, 50 years...
...world's largest telecommunications company, admit they've been watching the merger wave now engulfing U.S. phone companies with a sense of foreboding. Especially unnerving was the announcement earlier this month that 130-year-old AT&T, the American former monopoly carrier that not long ago was the oldest, biggest and baddest telecom firm on the planet, was about to be swallowed up by upstart regional player SBC?providing a sobering reminder that in the information age, no institution is too big to fail if it squanders its competitive edge. "Technology is advancing fast," says Shuichi Deguchi, senior manager...
...original Hasty Pudding Club gives its name to two distinct entities today, Hasty Pudding Theatricals (the nation’s oldest theatrical troupe) and Hasty Pudding Club (Harvard’s oldest social organization). The Pudding was conceived in 1795 to “cultivate the social affections and cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism,” according to its charter...
...discovered in 1992. Competing in races, often in Long Island Sound, Brunstad loved not only the physical challenge but also the camaraderie with competitors. When Brunstad decided to attempt the English Channel, he knew he would be swimming for the history books, trying to beat the record for the oldest swimmer, set by Clifford Batt of Australia...
...They should cheer instead. Big Breasts is a celebration of the power of women?as well as a lament about the fecklessness of men?in the world's oldest phallocracy. Mo Yan tells the story of Shangguan Lu, born in the last days of the Qing dynasty, raised with bound feet and married off to an infertile Northeast Gaomi blacksmith who is, she concludes, "a useless gob of snot outside the house and totally subservient in front of his mother." Desperate for a son, the girl cultivates a succession of other dolts and losers, who give her seven consecutive daughters...