But when Mercedes-Benz has one of its biggest recalls ever in 2005, and former bargain-basement-brand Hyundai continues its steady climb up quality surveys, it becomes clear that the old prejudices are just that -- old.

CNN: Car shopping 2006: The inside track

This is the idea that when the universe becomes very old and rarefied, the particles within it lose their mass.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

Investigative reporter and author Steve Silberman said he hopes that as "same-sex" marriage becomes plain old "marriage, " people who may have been resistant to the idea will realize that there's no fundamental difference.

CNN: Same-sex couples take long road to the altar

It took only minutes after Syracuse's loss to Michigan on Saturday night for the 68-year-old Boeheim to field a question that becomes routine for coaches when they become eligible for their Social Security checks.

WSJ: Boeheim plans on being back at Syracuse

The logic of Justice Roberts's opinion suggests that once states adopt new Medicaid, the program immediately becomes the old program for the purposes of the law and then states can't leave.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: New Medicaid's Roach Motel

But that old-fashioned construct is changing rapidly as technology becomes more deeply infused in every facet of business operations and almost every facet of our individual lives, and as a challenging global economy forces companies to wring new revenue out of new ideas.

FORBES: The Strategic CIO Agenda 2013: Strategies, Priorities, and Career-Killers

But just as in the old days, Lanegan and Dulli are so inherently earnest that "Idle Hands" becomes a pulpy hard-rock classic.

NPR: 'Idle Hands' and the Hammer of the Gods

But much of the projections made by this committee and other bodies that have looked at the issue of the ageing population assume old age automatically means an individual becomes a burden.

BBC: Why old age need not be a burden