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...Buddhist and human rights lawyer, at the age of 24 in 1970 he became the youngest person ever elected to Parliament...
...youngest woman to be elected to the City Council in 1999, Decker drew upon her background as a daughter of working class parents growing up in public housing in Cambridge and pointed to her 10-year record on the council in her speech...
...retreat came to South African and Shanghai expat Grant Horsfield who, while on vacation in Vietnam, realized the need for a rustic escape from life and work in China's financial capital. Horsfield teamed up with Briton Gabriela Lo, who shortly after stumbled upon a decaying Moganshan village (the youngest resident was 61 years old). "Once I found the village," Lo says, "I thought, This is it." After initial skepticism from the locals, Naked leased six of the village's 18 houses and now employs nine of its 14 residents...
Galluccio—a Cambridge City Councillor for 14 years who once served as the city’s youngest mayor since 1940—is now serving time in the Middlesex House of Correction. He was elected to the Senate seat in a 2007 special election after Jarrett T. Barrios resigned to run a healthcare company...
Even pro chess players - a population inured to demonstrations of extraordinary intellect - have been electrified by Carlsen's rise. A grand master at 13 (the third youngest in history) and a conqueror of top players at 15, he is often referred to as the Mozart of chess for the seeming ease of his mastery. In September, he announced a coaching contract with Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player of all time, who quit chess in 2005 to pursue a political career in Russia. "Before he is done," Kasparov says, "Carlsen will have changed our ancient game considerably." (See pictures...