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When Dr. Jiang Yanyong blew the whistle, he was confident his country would welcome his candor. In April 2003, shortly after he sent an open letter to the media detailing how the Chinese government was covering up an outbreak of SARS in Beijing, the septuagenarian retired People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) surgeon told TIME he had no reason to fear punishment for challenging China's official line. He was, after all, high-ranking in the military, a veteran member of the Communist Party and a doctor exercising what he called his "professional responsibility to protect the health of the people...
...photographic images selected by this acclaimed photographer, mapmaker, mountaineer, and native New Englander. The exhibition presents work from 50 years of his storied career, with some of his earliest shots in the French Alps at the age of 19 years old, and dramatic photographs taken in Alaska as a septuagenarian. Free. Harvard Museum of Natural History...
America's oldest living teenager has always liked hanging with the kids. But when DICK CLARK turned down a fellow septuagenarian for a job at his production company, he landed in some grownup legal trouble. Producer Ralph Andrews, 76, filed suit against Clark, 74, for age discrimination last week, citing a letter Clark wrote him. "The last development guy we hired was 27 years old," it says, according to the claim. "People our age are considered dinosaurs!" A spokesman for Dick Clark Productions declined to comment. Clark's other employees may want to stock up on their Grecian Formula...
...nearest began to stomp toward us, thumping their trunks on the ground. It was our third encounter with Sri Lankan pachyderms in less than a week, and though we escaped by crazily zigzagging in reverse, this one was rather close for comfort. "You're very fortunate," said Premaratna, our septuagenarian guide. "I've never seen so many herds assembled at one time." He estimated that there were about 1,000 elephants graying the grassy expanse that is the Minneriya-Giritale Sanctuary - about one-third of the country's wild-elephant population. Minneriya must be one of Sri Lanka 's best...
...failed him. At the University of Georgia, Seacrest majored in not just broadcasting but also business. "You can't be successful and have longevity in this business," he says, "if you don't have a business plan." Under Seacrest's thoroughly modern metrosexual exterior beats the heart of a septuagenarian Hollywood dinosaur. Among his idols, he says, are Larry King and Dick Clark, and Seacrest turned to the latter for advice on how to transform a spiffy smile and an affinity for what the kids like into a TV-production empire...