• Why not be able to enjoy five more years of life without debilitating disease?

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  • It seems banks are much weaker today thanks to bailouts of the financial and accounting variety that delay their necessary acquisition by better managers, not to mention the capital destroyed over the years due to poorly run banks being given new leases on life.

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  • By the way, he had not spoken for the six years of his life before going to MAC.

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  • Cockatoos have an average life span of 40 to 70 years, although it is not unheard for some cockatoos to make it to the ripe old age of 80.

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  • While the outflows may start to appear in the government data as early as the end of this month or May, Mr. Diviney said he is not expecting the scale of outward investments to be significantly different from previous years since life insurers have other means to deal with the BOJ's bond purchases.

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  • It argues that the life of Vanguard-class boats can be stretched at most to 30 years, not to 44 years as the service of America's equivalent Ohio-class boats can be.

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  • Prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty, so Gerhartsreiter could face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the murder conviction, plus two additional years because the jury also found that he personally used a blunt object and a sharp instrument as weapons.

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  • When Bismarck introduced the world's first state pension system in 1889, he set the retirement age at 70, some 25 years beyond the average Prussian's life expectancy, so it did not cost much to run.

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  • Meanwhile, Sally Clark, who served three years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is getting used to life in a home she has never seen and with a four-year-old son whose birthdays she has missed.

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  • Feminist theologians argue that the lack of female disciples was not unusual two thousand years ago, and point instead to the key role held by other women in his life: his friends Mary and Martha, Lazarus's sisters, and the prostitute Mary Magdalene.

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  • And with this in mind, I was not at all surprised to read today that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who lost two years of his life and tens of millions of dollars when he went to prison for killing dogs, had signed a new endorsement deal with Unequal Technologies, a provider of the football pads Vick wore during most of last season.

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  • Mongolian spots usually fade to a large extent, if not completely, within the first decade of life (often within the first few years).

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  • This is a quickly fading paradigm which has held us in its grip for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has affected every aspect of our human life from politics , economics , health and religion to population migration, wars, and scientific development.

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