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  • Becks facing adjustment issues post-retirement

    Football ace David Beckham is facing difficulties coming to terms with his retirement from the sport. The former England captain who played his last game in Paris Saint-Germain's 3-1 win over Brest, will now take up other projects which might possibly include purchasing a U.S. Major League Soccer franchise, The Sun reports. Beckham said he will find it difficult after two months of rest to ...

  • Sleep apnea in seniors linked to Alzheimers

    A new NYU study looking at sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and markers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and neuroimaging has supported the growing body of research linking the two. But this latest study also poses an interesting question: Could AD in its "preclinical stages" also lead to SDB and explain the increased prevalence of SDB in the elderly? "It's really ...

  • For the elderly in US poetry blunts the pain of isolation

    A woman in her seventies takes the microphone to recite a short poem, which, she warned the men present, was on the hazards of flirting. "Cheda na karo ate jatein raston mein, pale pad gayi to mushkil hogi" (Do not flirt with every girl who crosses your path, if she falls for you, you will have a problem). It was a couplet which would have been greeted with cat calls and whistles among college ...

  • Ray Manzarek keyboardist with the Doors dies aged 74

    Ray Manzarek at the Sunset music festival in Hollywood in August 2011. The keyboardist in the Doors has died aged 74. Photograph: Joe ...

  • 7 mistakes to avoid in retirement planning

    It's complicated, this retirement thing. We keep hearing we need to save more money than we've saved. We're worrying about health care. There's a lot at stake, and we can't screw up. Here's what not to ...


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The Mist

The Mist

You have to give it to Frank Darabont: When he makes a movie, he makes it all the way. His last film, The Majestic (2001), was intended to be a heart-warming populist fable in the Frank Capra vein, but he took it so far that its saccharine sentimental sweetness left a bad aftertaste in most ... ...

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  • Does prostate cancer treatment help older sick men

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men with other illnesses may not live long enough to benefit from aggressive prostate cancer treatments, such as prostate removal or radiation, and they'd have to live with their side effects, says a new ...

  • Public pension employees skip Hawaii conference

    HONOLULU -- Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds say administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise.Hank Kim is the executive director of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems. He says roughly 650 ...

  • Older twin of sun may foretell Earths future

    The most distant solar twin in our galaxy, shown here in an artist's rendering, may help foretell the future of our sun. Credit: Jose Dias do ...

  • Business Size does matter when choosing pension scheme

    What this means for workers is that a bigger retirement scheme with assets in excess of Sh500 million is more likely to provide a better return, which goes a long way towards guaranteeing a more financially secure ...

  • Rioters in Sweden protest alleged brutality racism after police shoot elderly man

    Violence Rioters took to the streets of a Stockholm neighborhood on Sunday, torching cars and throwing stones at police. Officers reportedly called residents "monkeys" and other derogatory terms as they protested against a recent police shooting. Between 60 to 100 people - most of them young men - took part in the riots which began around 10pm local time in the Stockholm district of ...

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