Word: centenarian
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...well as studying these populations intensively to unlock their secrets, scientists have also taken a hard look at the very old in the U.S., most notably in the New England Centenarian Study, led by Dr. Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University, and in a major study under way at the National Institute on Aging. While the very old are happy to offer homespun explanations for their longevity--"I never took a drink"; "I drank a shot of whiskey every day"--experts are trying to unravel and understand the biological factors that allow some people to reach 100 while others...
...HOPE, legendary funnyman of stage and screen; his 100th birthday; in Los Angeles. British-born Hope, who began his career in vaudeville, has acted in more than 50 movies, anchored scores of TV shows and entertained millions of American troops posted overseas. In the U.S., Hope's becoming a centenarian will be commemorated over an entire year with exhibitions, stage performances and TV and movie specials. Ahead of his May 29 birthday, the comedian was reported to have quipped, "I'm so old, they've canceled my blood type...
...Numbers 85 years is how long a centenarian Taiwanese couple have been married?taking the Guinness record from a U.S. couple married 83 years...
Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age by Dr. Thomas T. Perls, assistant professor of medicine, and Margery H. Silver clinical instructor in psychology, draws on their research with the New England Centenarian Study (NECS). Perls and Silver are the director and associate director of NECS, respectively...
...stories that are hard to miss. But he was the master of the small story, the kind we tend to miss. "I have resolutely pursued irrelevance out there on the back roads," he said. And so, with his warm baritone and neighborly mien, Kuralt traveled America to discover centenarian entertainers, whittlers, slingshot artists, brickmakers and an astonishing host of the overlooked, transforming them into roadside reminders in the media fast lane of a real world with real people in real time. Irrelevance, indeed...