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  • Mr Osborne also revealed that from 2016, men will have to work until the age of 66 before they can receive the state pension.

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  • Noguchi climbed his first mountain, Mont Blanc, at age 16 before becoming the youngest person to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents.

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  • Even from a sunny, ripe vintage like 1998, what strikes you about this all-chardonnay wine is its pinpoint elegance, a refined texture and closely woven harmony that comes in part from its nine to 10 years of cellar age before it hits the market.

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  • Baby boomers who are taking early Social Security benefits (meaning before the age of 66) and still work at least part time, will see the amount they can earn without losing some of their Social Security checks frozen for 2010.

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  • Thomas Heatherwick's spectacular flames were finally extinguished before the pension-age members of The Who sang us out with My Generation to a generation young enough to be their grandkids.

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  • The policy was drawn up before evidence that babies should be given solid food before the age of six months was published in last week's British Medical Journal.

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  • The new policy allows people younger than 30 who came to the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat and were successful students or served in the military to receive a two-year deferral from deportation.

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  • Under the new policy, people younger than 30 who came to the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful students or served in the military can get a two-year deferral from deportation, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

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  • Under the new policy, people younger than 30 who came to the United States before the age of 16, who pose no criminal or security threat and were successful students or served in the military can get a two-year deferral from deportation, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said last month.

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  • The Obama administration has said its deferred action policy -- which allows people younger than 30 who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful students or served in the military, to apply for a two-year deferral from deportation -- is a temporary measure aimed at addressing a problem that requires a permanent solution.

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