• The problem is buried in the fine print of universal life policies, widely promoted since the 1980s as a new and improved version of the old-fashioned whole life insurance product our grandparents relied on as the surest way to save for retirement.

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  • Seau, like others, was in what non-super athletes call the prime of life (43 years old), on the cusp of prime time earning potential.

    FORBES: Connect

  • They crave the sense of connection, the inherently communal experience, of hearing real people breathe life into centuries-old compositions: the venerated composers, modern-day musicians and generations of music-lovers, all united in the expression of raw human emotion through art.

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  • "I have taken the front of the storm for the entire life of a man 50 years old, who has had a monumentally destructive, painful life that has been so damaged it is of huge proportions, " Murray told Lemon.

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  • Lessened demand on Western taxpayers' resources for agricultural credits and other forms of life-support for the vestiges of the old Soviet centralized system.

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  • Aston Villa, Tottenham and Manchester City have also been linked with Wilson and Smith believes attempts from Premiership managers to lure young talent south of the border is now a fact of life for Scottish clubs, including the Old Firm.

    BBC: Walter Smith sure speculation won't affect Danny Wilson

  • The life of the 23-year-old soldier was not in danger, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

    NPR: French Soldier Stabbed In Throat Outside Paris

  • There were no plans, he said, to extend the life of old coal power stations.

    BBC: Cheap coal 'threatens UK pollution targets'

  • Meanwhile, the life of old coal-fired power stations is being extended by subsidising them to burn wood pellets.

    BBC: Biofuels: MPs to consider subsidies for power stations

  • When I met her shortly after Ninoy's funeral, she was under the illusion that as soon as public curiosity about her waned, she could retreat to the privacy of her old life and fight Marcos from the sidelines.

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  • Since 1971 the life expectancy of the average 65-year-old in the rich world has improved by four to five years.

    ECONOMIST: Pensions: 70 or bust! | The

  • "The Big Knife" hasn't been produced as much as those plays, but the fine ensemble in this Roundabout production brings new life to the age-old story of artists trapped by the glitter of commercial success.

    WSJ: Review: Fame cuts both ways in 'The Big Knife'

  • The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour of American life occurs on Sunday morning.

    NPR: Obama Forced to Address Relationship with Pastor

  • Now if only China would play nice our great grandchildren may be saved from rising sea levels and they can live a less stressed more rural kind of life just like the rest of the world in the old days.

    FORBES: The Light Bulb Moment: Lights Out In America?

  • There was a parallel earlier when we had this explosion of special-interest magazines that put the big, broad mass magazines like Look and the old Life and the Saturday Evening Post nearly out of business.

    FORBES: Dow Jones Interactive

  • It would be a shame to leave Berlin without investigating the phenomenon of Ostalgie -- nostalgia for life in the old East Germany.

    CNN: Berlin: Where to shop

  • At risk is the life of Rifqa Bary, the seventeen-year-old girl who fled to Florida in July to escape her family and the virulent Muslim community near Columbus, Ohio of which they have been a part since immigrating from Sri Lanka.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Death sentence? The FDLE Report

  • Given that Mr Winton is now 47, he is remarkably in touch with the currents of a 15-year-old's emotional life, and towards the end of the novel does a marvellous job of fast-forwarding into the damaged adult that Pikelet will become.

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  • "The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water, " according to Klaus Toepfer, the agency's executive director, whose comments are included in the report.

    CNN: U.N.: Iraq's marshlands recovering

  • Forced to move from a remote corner of the Ecuadorian Amazon to Sweden four years ago amid death threats following her community's opposition to the planned oil project, Nina Siren has been part of the fight to preserve the way of life of the indigenous Kichwa people of Sarayaku since she was 7 or 8 years old.

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  • Obama used the life of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate what the nation has overcome in her lifetime, including the Depression, world wars, the nation's quest for civil rights, a man on the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even a world connected by technology.

    CNN: 'Change has come to America,' Obama says

  • The old life of the Asian Bosphorus with its ramshackle palaces and gardens and rose nurseries its slow riverine pace, seemed alive and well.

    WSJ: Dreaming in Ottoman: Istanbul at a Crossroads

  • Several would-be downshifters cut out too much of their old life in the transition, which is where things often go wrong, she says.

    CNN: Taking a step into the slow lane

  • The two parts of the old life that are most commonly missed, she says, are having an income and a work-related social network.

    CNN: Taking a step into the slow lane

  • Doctors at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center initially worked to save the life of the 5-year-old boy, who underwent more than six hours of surgery for abdominal wounds.

    CNN: shooting

  • Still - smaller, leaner, with a hefty website to back them up - the successful retailers of the future could prove there's life in the old High Street yet.

    BBC: Online shops take stock and move into the High Street

  • "The first one always is the one you remember for the rest of your life, " the 26-year-old Gagnon said.

    WSJ: Gagnon's first goal helps Jets win 4-1

  • "My name is Umar but you can call me Farouk, " the poster continues, detailing biographical information that appears to match the life of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of attempting to detonate an explosive on an international flight into Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day.

    CNN: Online poster appears to be Christmas Day bomb suspect

  • The responsibilities of caring for young and old can be detrimental to family life too, the survey suggests, with two-thirds of sandwich carers reporting damage to their marriages or personal relationships.

    BBC: Carers of young and old 'are struggling to cope'

  • Ron Hutley, 91, who has lived in Victoria Street, Braintree, all his life remembers the opening of the town hall when he was six years old.

    BBC: Historic Braintree Town Hall re-opened after revamp

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