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...population of centenarians, with almost 600 of its 1.3 million inhabitants living into their second century--many of them active and looking decades younger than their actual years. Like weekend visitors on the summer ferry to Martha's Vineyard, scientists and sociologists clog the boats to Sardinia and Nova Scotia, Canada, to see why those craggy locales harbor outsize clusters of the superold. (Gerontologists are not so beguiled by the Russian Caucasus, where exaggerated longevity claims sparked a series of Dannon yogurt commercials 30 years...
...eating fatty processed foods, blowing a gasket in a freeway traffic jam, exercising no more than our fingers at the computer--that centenarians can't imagine. Most of them were born into an America as remote from today's metaphorically as the craggy villages of Sardinia, Okinawa and Nova Scotia are geographically. In the early 1900s people walked miles to work not by choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People tilled the fields because their farmer parents needed cheap help. People ate what they grew because it was there. Most labor was manual then, and most...
After falling in the national championship to Minnesota, Ruggiero and Chu left to go to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they represented Team USA at the International Ice Hockey Federeation’s (IIHF) World Championships. The U.S. was awarded the silver medal after falling 2-0 to Canada in the gold-medal game...
...happened twice before, the officials’ ruling went against them, and in this case worked against Team USA in its 2-0 loss to Canada in the women’s gold-medal game of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
Just over a week after falling to Minnesota 6-2 in the NCAA women’s hockey championship, co-captain Angela Ruggiero and sophomore Julie Chu traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia to join Natalie Darwitz, Krissy Wendell and Kelly Stephens—the Minnesota first line that exploded for 10 of their school’s 11 goals in the Frozen Four en rote to the title—amongst others to compete for the U.S against the world’s best...