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When Karl Pillemer set out to interview elderly men and women, he wasn t entirely sure what to expect. HT Image A gerontologist and professor at Cornell University, Pillemer had seen studies indicating that many senior citizens were happier than people who were decades younger, despite being plagued with chronic disease, various disabilities and sagging skin. He wanted to know why or, more to the point, how. Pillemer anticipated empty generalisation. He dreaded the phrase Live life to the fullest. Instead, over the past six years, as Pillemer and his research team talked to 1,500 people aged 70 and older, they gathered thousands of pages of transcripts filled w stanley cup ith practical guides to a happy life: Don t rush into marriage. Don t hit your kids. Don t choose a career just because it pays well. Being old is better than you think. Clearly, thes stanley cup e people had something to say. The problem is, no one s been willing to listen, said Pillemer. His ongoing study, which he calls The Legacy stanley cup Project, has given a voice to the unheard and turned some conventional thinking about aging on its head. When Pillemer turned 50, he recalled, his own anxiety over aging and what began to feel like imminent death grew. Then he had a conversation with a nearly blind, waxy-skinned, jubilant 90-year-old named June. Young man, June told him, you will learn, I hope, that happiness is what you make it, where you are... It s my responsibility to be as happy as I can. That interview set Vhok Ex-Soviet dissident barred from Russian election
A tropical storm whipped up a tornado, triggered a landslide a stanley cup nd overturned boats as it cut across the northern Philippines, leaving at least eight dead and 11 missing amid widespread flooding, officials said. HT Image Storm Nangka, with winds of 34 miles 55 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 56 mph 90 kph , moved into the South China Sea west of Manila overnight and was expected to tra jordan ck northwest toward the Taiwan Strait this weekend, forecasters said on Thursday. Nearly 10,000 people were stranded aboard hundreds of ferries and motorboats, which were ordered to stay docked for safety. Two people died when a landslide buried their house in southern Cagayan de Oro city after days of heavy rain, the national disaster agency reported. In mountainous Quezon province, about 70 miles 110 kilometers southeast of Manila, a tornado struck a fishing boat that had taken cover in a cove, adidas originals killing four fishermen and injuring two others late on Tuesday. All six were sleeping on the boat near Perez township when the tornado hit, Mayor Pepito Reyes said. Two people drowned in central Cebu province on Tuesday. Eleven others, including five fishermen, disappeared in floodwaters and rough seas in eastern Samar Island and nearby provinces, officials said. Huge waves overturned a passenger boat off central Mactan Island on Tuesday, but a coast guard ship rescued all 13 aboard who swam for hours waiting for help, officials said. A passing ferry reportedly refused to come to t
When Karl Pillemer set out to interview elderly men and women, he wasn t entirely sure what to expect. HT Image A gerontologist and professor at Cornell University, Pillemer had seen studies indicating that many senior citizens were happier than people who were decades younger, despite being plagued with chronic disease, various disabilities and sagging skin. He wanted to know why or, more to the point, how. Pillemer anticipated empty generalisation. He dreaded the phrase Live life to the fullest. Instead, over the past six years, as Pillemer and his research team talked to 1,500 people aged 70 and older, they gathered thousands of pages of transcripts filled w stanley cup ith practical guides to a happy life: Don t rush into marriage. Don t hit your kids. Don t choose a career just because it pays well. Being old is better than you think. Clearly, thes stanley cup e people had something to say. The problem is, no one s been willing to listen, said Pillemer. His ongoing study, which he calls The Legacy stanley cup Project, has given a voice to the unheard and turned some conventional thinking about aging on its head. When Pillemer turned 50, he recalled, his own anxiety over aging and what began to feel like imminent death grew. Then he had a conversation with a nearly blind, waxy-skinned, jubilant 90-year-old named June. Young man, June told him, you will learn, I hope, that happiness is what you make it, where you are... It s my responsibility to be as happy as I can. That interview set Vhok Ex-Soviet dissident barred from Russian election
A tropical storm whipped up a tornado, triggered a landslide a stanley cup nd overturned boats as it cut across the northern Philippines, leaving at least eight dead and 11 missing amid widespread flooding, officials said. HT Image Storm Nangka, with winds of 34 miles 55 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 56 mph 90 kph , moved into the South China Sea west of Manila overnight and was expected to tra jordan ck northwest toward the Taiwan Strait this weekend, forecasters said on Thursday. Nearly 10,000 people were stranded aboard hundreds of ferries and motorboats, which were ordered to stay docked for safety. Two people died when a landslide buried their house in southern Cagayan de Oro city after days of heavy rain, the national disaster agency reported. In mountainous Quezon province, about 70 miles 110 kilometers southeast of Manila, a tornado struck a fishing boat that had taken cover in a cove, adidas originals killing four fishermen and injuring two others late on Tuesday. All six were sleeping on the boat near Perez township when the tornado hit, Mayor Pepito Reyes said. Two people drowned in central Cebu province on Tuesday. Eleven others, including five fishermen, disappeared in floodwaters and rough seas in eastern Samar Island and nearby provinces, officials said. Huge waves overturned a passenger boat off central Mactan Island on Tuesday, but a coast guard ship rescued all 13 aboard who swam for hours waiting for help, officials said. A passing ferry reportedly refused to come to t