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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Your senses stay alert at these altitudes, and that alone must help prolong life. It worked for our forebears at least. Remain attentive and you might make it on the trail to Oregon. Lose focus for a moment and wham! - you're bear meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where You Will Live the Longest | 9/12/2006 | See Source »

...year (about one-twelfth the figure that many obesity experts had been fond of quoting). But this was more than canceled out by the 34,000 deaths that researchers linked to being underweight-having a BMI lower than 18.5. What to make of pudginess appearing to prolong lives? Study coauthor David Williamson speculated that since most people are over 70 when they die, some extra fat might have a protective effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bent Out of Shape | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

Extension: 1. How to prolong writer’s block. 2. Harvard school attended by Hillary Duff...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...conflict no longer is about achieving a specific objective--it's about imposing new rules of conduct, re-establishing one's deterrence, redesigning the region's strategic map. Stopping such fighting is a tall order, precisely because the protagonists' main goal is to demonstrate they are not afraid to prolong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Start Talking | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...possibly detected my own ploy: to engage in a bit of backtracking mystification and prolong the suspense about the Howard Da Vinci Code. But enough already. What did I think about the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Da Vinci Code Mystery Revealed! | 5/16/2006 | See Source »

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