When an actress wins an Academy Award, it catapults her to a new universe. When she wins two, she gets into the VIP room in that new universe. Hilary Swank has two Oscars, for her work in “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Million Dollar Baby,” which means that in the distaff hierarchy of movie stardom she ranks somewhere between Katharine Hepburn (four Oscars) and Helen Hunt (one). Swank has as many Oscars as Meryl Streep.
Hilary Swank isn’t known for doffing her duds on the big screen. But her revelation that she goes nude in real life — in front of her boyfriend’s 6-year-old son — has sparked such a controversy that it threatens to upstage her bid for a third Oscar: a new biopic about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
President Barack Obama should learn from the experience of previous U.S. leaders when grappling with thorny nuclear issues ranging from the ambitions of Iran and North Korea to the threat of terrorism, experts told a forum on the shaping of American foreign policy in a nuclear age.
Old people get sick more than young people, and in most states that adds up to them paying a lot more for their health insurance premiums.
Bone tests will be performed on soccer players at the Under-17 World Cup in Nigeria to catch teams with over-age players.
Add this to President Barack Obama's problems in selling his health care overhaul: A lot of the tech-savvy activists who helped put him in office are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue.
Just before Tyler Kales was led from a Mount Vernon, Wash., courtroom to begin serving his sentence earlier this month, he apologized to the family of his victim.
Most Americans have never known a world where man hasn't been to the moon.
It may have worked as a plotline for “Sex and the City,” but according to new government figures, very few American women need fear being an “old maid.”
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by older pilots who sued their union over an interpretation of a law that raised the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots to 65.
There's more action and cuddly creatures for kids to love in "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" than in the animated franchise's first two installments.
William Trumbly was in combat almost from the moment he hit the ground on Normandy Beach in 1944 shortly after D-Day until he was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. When the first shots were fired in his direction, he sought divine intervention.
X-ray bone analysis of 15,000 young Chinese athletes shows about 20 percent have lied about their ages, provincial sports authorities say.
A top baseball prospect from the Dominican Republic who received a $1.4 million signing bonus from the Washington Nationals lied about his age and name in what team president Stan Kasten called "an elaborate scheme."
Why does age slow him down? And is her man's British upbringing causing their too-polite exchanges in the bedroom? Sexploration answers your queries. Got a question? .
NBA player Yi Jianlian is being investigated by a Chinese-language magazine which claims he is one of many of the country's athletes guilty of lying about their age on official documents.
Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole.
Taking aim at a longstanding rite of passage for 16-year-olds, an influential auto safety group is calling on states to raise the age for getting a driver's license to 17 or even 18.
The college presidents said they wanted a national debate on the 21-year-old drinking age. They got it.
So how old is John McCain? Six-packs, automatic transmissions and the American Express card were all introduced after he was born — not to mention computers, which McCain admits he doesn't use.
Early on in the new "Sex and the City" film — and don't worry, we're not spoiling the plot here — Carrie and longtime love Mr. Big are in bed together. A passionate interlude? Nah, they're just reading. Except they both need glasses, and there's only one pair.
Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada told the team he's actually 33, two years older than he's listed in the club's media guide and other baseball records after being shown a copy of his birth certificate by ESPN.
Arkansas' marriage-age crisis is over. A law that mistakenly allowed anyone — even toddlers — to marry with parental permission was repealed by a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mike Beebe, ending months of embarrassment for the state and confusion for county clerks.
The Supreme Court has left the door open for workers in age discrimination cases to present supporting evidence from other employees at a company.
Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
BOSTON -- A woman who was laid off as a sales manager at a Cape Cod country club because she was over 50 years old has been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and compensation, the state said.
I would really feel so much better if I knew that when suffering became unbearable I could order my last cocktail and go to sleep peacefully. I am at that age when it occurs to me it could be anything from now on out.
Key quote: "scientists have insisted in recent years that 350 parts per million is the most carbon dioxide we can safely have in the atmosphere. The current CO2 concentration is 390 parts per million."
In a case involving an 87-year-old man convicted of racketeering, a federal judge in Manhattan rejected a plea for leniency last year, giving the man a five-year sentence. The judge in this case had a special perspective: He was 84 himself.
Can we have everything we had again...only better as seniors?
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified genes which may influence the onset age of Parkinson's Disease (PD).
Yesterday, I had a birthday, marking 59 years I have been on this earth. In the overall scheme of things, that's not even a flicker in the eye of the world. I don't live in the overall scheme of things, though, I live in the here and now.
Twitter seems to be the new thing, but I can't find anyone my age who actually uses it. Please vote, poll and leave your thoughts on this matter. CoH
Reported earlier in the summer from the BBC. A US research on restricted diet done on these rhesus monkeys who were observed over 2 decades.
THE BBC caused outrage last night after it allowed a leading academic to demand the age of consent be lowered to 13. Professor John Spencer, appearing on a BBC Radio Four programme to be broadcast tomorrow night, says ALL teenagers should be free to have sex.
An 18-year-old Starke man was arrested at a high school football game Friday night and charged with having sex with a 12-year-old girl.
While looking over my article about sex education I couldn't help but wonder about what age a child should be before they are allowed to date or have a steady boy/girlfriend. I have my own standards for my children and I don't want them dating until 16.
101-year-old Kazimierz Michalski "grabbed Stephen Gillespie" after Gillespie stole his wallet.
Buddhist monk Luang Phu Supha may be the world's oldest man. On September 17, 2009 he may be celebrating his 115th birthday.
I wrote an article about this recently and didn't get a response, so I thought I would try it this way. Please be honest and keep it clean. You can see the original article on my page.
Baines was born in Shellman, Ga., on April 6, 1894, when Grover Cleveland was in the White House, radio communication was just being developed and television was still more than a half-century from becoming a ubiquitous household presence.
A boy aged 7 has become Britain's youngest skydiver. Tom Hayes jumped from 9,000ft over Lake Bled while on holiday in Slovenia.
New research hints that the common belief that kids who go to daycare have lower rates of asthma and allergy later in life might be nothing more than wishful thinking.
I was a little put off when a 46-year-old man expressed an interest in me. I am 52. I have always been of the opinion that I will do better with a man no more than 4 years (preferably 2) younger than me, and no more than 10 years (preferably 8) older.
IT is a welcome move by a forward thinking judiciary official of an Indian High Court to challenge the law made centuries ago by the British.
The retirement age in the UK could rise to 70, the chairman of the Pensions Regulator is warning.
- A wee bit of humor on the ravages of time – From Forsyth, Georgia -- Author: Anonymous (because an elf sent it to me in my email and I have no idea who really wrote it, maybe George, maybe not)
"Most experts agree that a Carbon Tax, based on a global price for carbon, would be the simplest and most logical way to use market forces to bring down greenhouse gas emissions". Others won't - but France may do it!
Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, has died at the age of 113, his care home has said. Mr Allingham served with the Royal Naval Air Service in WWI, later transferring to the Royal Air Force at the time of its creation.