Directors Notes (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Many artists have the all too unfortunate experience of working away in obscurity for their entire creative life spans, so when the first two projects you put out are warmly received, with one of them selected as the winner for Thunderheist’s ‘make us a promo’ competition, chances are you’re doing several things right. Noel Paul [...]
talkturkey (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
The New York Times reports that the Mediterranean diet, associated with longer life spans and lower rates of heart disease and cancer, is in retreat in its home region. Today it is more likely to be found in the upscale restaurants of London and New York than among the young generation in places like Greece, where two-thirds of children are...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking program dealing with the deteriorating physical, mental and emotional status of men, their shorter life spans, unmet gender specific psychological and medical needs will take place Wednesday,...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Most pop-star life spans are measurable in a couple of years, if not mere months. In that context, then, the 50th birthdays of Madonna and Michael Jackson – today and Aug. 29, respectively – are momentous occasions.
Pure Play (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Question for you? Meeting Kilkenny CEB next week to make the case that the capital grant which they give (normally given for tangible items such as plant and equipment with life spans in excess of one year) should also be...
naked capitalism (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Defined-benefit pension plans are famously a headache for the many firms that, once upon a time, offered them. Managing far-future liabilities related to employee career choices and life spans is far outside the core competence of nonfinancial firms. Pensions accounting is its own little universe, just like nightmares are. So doesn't it make sense to outsource the management of those plans to financial...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
As Americans aged over the past two generations, they drank less alcohol. And the younger generation of adults drank less heavily than the ones before it, according to the first analysis of alcohol-consumption trends over adult life spans.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Would-be boomer windfall will be lost to health costs, life spans, weak market.
NewsObserver.com - Business (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Divorce, higher living costs, longer life spans may take every cent of boomers' retirement savings.
Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Good news. "Obese U.S. residents in their 20s will incur lifetime medical bills between $5,340 and $29,460 more than their healthy-weight peers despite shorter life spans, according to a study published online in the journal Obesity , USA Today reports." This amount of money is less than the cost of fat person surgery, follow-up, etc . Now we don't have to pay for the malpractice known as bariatric...
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
Trees such as California’s majestic coastal redwoods or the South’s moss-draped live oaks sporting life spans of 3,300 and 300 years, respectively, easily outlive their human admirers. However, very few living things on Earth can rival the ancient, dwarfed and knarled bristle cone pines surviving at timberline in California, Nevada, and Utah for up to [...]
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
A In my years of using both types of computers daily, I have never noticed a significant difference in when Macs and Windows PCs become unfit to use, and I have never seen claims from Apple that its computers last longer than competing models.
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Vanessa, with a portrait of her great-grandmother last fall in Lost Creek, Ky. Life spans aren t keeping up in Appalachia. But new research shows that those reassuring nationwide gains mask a darker and more complex reality. A pair of reports out Source: www.theledger.com Health Briefs: A round-up of health news, events [...]
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Women are at a much higher risk than men of facing economic uncertainty in retirement and, on average, they'll enter retirement with considerably less savings than men. Women face these unique challenges because they spend fewer years in the workforce, earn less income and have longer life spans than men, according to a report released today entitled, The Female Factor 2008: Why Women are at Greater...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
WASHINGTON - Women's life expectancy declined significantly in 180 U.S. counties, mostly in the Deep South and Appalachia, between 1983 and 1999, researchers reported yesterday.
