Fossils said to be more than 450 million years old and of a kind never discovered before have been uncovered at a quarry in Powys.

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Rare fossils found in old quarry

The health secretary overruled the Food and Drug Administration’s decision that emergency contraceptives be sold freely over the counter, including to teenagers 16 years old and younger.

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Sebelius Overrules F.D.A. on Freer Sale of Emergency Contraceptives

When Catherine al-Talli was 13 years old, a group of strangers came knocking at her family's home in Syria. It was 1992.

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Activist: Syrian people won’t back down

A female loggerhead turtle will not reach maturity and start to lay eggs until she is 45 years old, according to scientists.

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Turtles take 45 years to grow up

Helen Stefan Moreau was 22 years old and two months into her job at a Washington staffing firm when her boss sat her down. “I like you, and I think you are great,” Moreau recalls her boss saying at the life-changing meeting in 1989. “You have great potential, but it’s been two months and you haven’t had a deal. I can’t afford you under these circumstances.” Read full article > >

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Value Added: She placed herself on a path to profit

When John Salmen invited me to see the Takoma Park, Md., house where he and his wife, Ann Scher, “expect to spend the next 50 years,” I wasn’t sure what to expect. As both Salmen and his wife are already more than 50 years old, the house would eventually have to accommodate a person facing the frailties of advancing age. Read full article > >

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Home designed for aging ‘in place’

John Beck was again early to the practice field. Then, when rain interrupted the Washington Redskins’ practice Wednesday afternoon, Beck stood outside the team facility beneath an overhang, waiting for the weather to clear. Waiting is something to which he’s become accustomed. He’s 30 years old and hasn’t taken an NFL snap since 2007. After losing the preseason quarterback competition to Rex Grossman , he’ll have to wait a bit longer for his opportunity. Read full article > >

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John Beck is still waiting for his chance to start at QB for Redskins

I remember sitting down in front of my rich dad to show him the financials for my nylon and Velcro wallet business. I was 32 years old and the business had taken off quicker than I’d ever imagined. I had more than 380 independent sales reps. Sales were soaring, and our product was in demand.

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Opinion: It’s cowards that finish last

The authorities said it was unclear what caused the dog, a male Cane Corso who is 7 or 8 years old, to attack on Friday night.

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Boy, 4, Is Mauled to Death by Dog in Brooklyn Home

Adapted from a recent online discussion. Your fighting is worse for Ethan than going to the wrong school plus whatever junk food he eats in a month plus whatever else you’re over-/under-indulging him with as a byproduct of your mutual inability to act like grown-ups. I won’t include the spanking in that because Ethan is 10 years old . Whatever highly debatable benefits you were (er, one of you was) able to embrace with spanking, you can now achieve by actually talking to the kid. Read full article > >

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When parents can’t be grown-ups

At 5 years old, photographs of Samar Hassan, screaming and splattered in blood, illuminated the horror of civilian casualties in Iraq.

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Face That Screamed War’s Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later

Police are questioning two men, aged 40 and 49 years old, about the deaths of two teenagers from carbon monoxide poisoning last summer.

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Two held over teens’ ‘gas deaths’

When Matthew Broder, the third son of the late Washington Post reporter and columnist David Broder, was 5 years old, he received a postcard in the mail from his father, who was on a reporting trip in Texas. The card depicted three sad-faced puppy dogs.

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Politicians, journalists and readers remember longtime Post reporter David Broder

Seven children, aged from seven months to 11 years old, die in a fire at a farmhouse in the borough of Blain in the US state of Pennsylvania.

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Seven children die in farm fire

Marisol Valles Garcia earned headlines for her bravery when, at just 20 years old, she was the only applicant to be police chief in a violent, Mexican border town. Now she is in headlines again, as she has apparently fled across the border to the…

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Mexican Cop Seeks U.S. Aslyum