Posts Tagged ‘years-old’

Mom of 3 kids abandoned in shed found

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Three children — all apparently 3 years old or younger — were found in a shed among a group of homeless people. Police in Oregon now say they located the mother.

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200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Astmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Soccer helps kids get over war

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Khalid Yohana was 7 years old when war reached his hometown of Mosul, Iraq.

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Rare fossils found in old quarry

Monday, December 19th, 2011

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

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

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

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

Activist: Syrian people won’t back down

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

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

Turtles take 45 years to grow up

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

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

Value Added: She placed herself on a path to profit

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

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

Home designed for aging ‘in place’

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

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

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

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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Opinion: It’s cowards that finish last

Friday, August 19th, 2011

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

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

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

When parents can’t be grown-ups

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

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

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

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

Two held over teens’ ‘gas deaths’

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

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’