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5 tips to live to be 100: ‘Far more than wishful thinking,’ say longevity experts
More and more people are making it to the 100-year milestone. Nearly 90,000 people were at least 100 years and older in the U.S. as of 2021, almost double the amount 20 years prior, according to data from the United Nations. So — what’s their secret The odds of being alive for a full century depend…
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Good morning. If Nick and Vanessa Lachey are free, we have a new Netflix dating show pitch: Chuck Grassley’s office. The 90-year-old Republican senator from Iowa posted on Instagram that his current chief of staff, Jennifer Heins, and former legislative aide Nick Davis got married over the weekend, making them the 20thmarried couple who met while…
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Good morning. Disney turns 100 years old today, joining the exclusive club of companies that made it through the Great Depression, World War II, the advent of the internet, Frasier, the social media era, and the Frasier reboot. It’s an impressive feat, to be sure, but Disney’s still got a long way to go to catch the Cal Ripken…
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Good morning and welcome to September, the month when everyone stops complaining about the humidity and starts complaining about their fantasy football injuries. FOOD & BEV The fight for the right to repair McFlurry machines Illustration: Francis Scialabba, Photos: Getty Images Tech whizzes and copyright experts have teamed up to reduce the number of people…
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Good morning. Today, in the small town of Buñol, Spain, trucks will haul more than 100 tons of tomatoes to serve as ammo for the world’s largest food fight. Known as La Tomatina, the festival is held the last Wednesday of August and draws a crowd of 20,000 tomato-flingers who clearly don’t mind being left on…
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Good morning. The excitement was palpable at West Point yesterday as cadets and staff at the US Military Academy prepared to open a recently discovered lead box that was believed to be a time capsule left by students in the 1820s. Would it contain a flag? A class ring? A note of encouragement to future West…
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Good morning. For decades, Central New Jersey residents have languished in the liminal space between the youse guys of South Jersey and the strip-mall bagel joints of North Jersey. But now, the state is finally telling its neglected middle child: “You exist.” Last week, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy literally put Central Jersey on the map by…
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(Raynham Fire Department) Early Sunday, just after midnight, firefighters in Raynham, Massachusetts, responded to a report of a kitten in distress crying for help inside a storm drain. Out of an abundance of caution due to the lack of light, first responders made the decision to wait for daylight to proceed with rescue efforts. Before they left,…
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Good morning. Here’s a fact about playing cards that we’re intentionally telling you in the morning because you would not sleep if you learned about it close to bedtime. It comes from a TikTok video by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He revealed that the possible number of ways you can shuffle a 52-card deck is so unfathomably large (52…
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Good morning. On this day in 1998, former President Bill Clinton turned everyone’s minds into a pretzel when, during grand jury testimony over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, he mused, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” Truthfully, it’s been a while since preschool and we could use a little refresher. According…
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