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TIME Magazine Releases List of 100 Most Influential People

Shauna Wright — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:00:04 +0000

A few weeks ago, TIME Magazine revealed the names it was considering for its annual list of the ’100 Most Influential People in the World.’ Reader votes determined one person, while the rest were selected by the magazine’s editors.

And now the final list — which includes athletes, actors, entrepreneurs and politicians — is out. So who made the cut?

Fauja Singh is 100 Years Old and World's Oldest Marathon Runner [VIDEO]

Nick Romano — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:00:44 +0000

Sunday marked the moment when Fauja Singh from east London received a Guinness Book of World Records title for being the oldest man alive to complete a full-distance marathon. At 100 years old, Singh finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in a time of eight hours, 22 minutes and 16 seconds. “He’s absolutely overjoyed, he’s achieved [...]

What's the Key to Living to 100?

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:00:27 +0000

According to a new study, people live to 100 because of good genes and luck, not healthy living habits.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York interviewed 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112 on their lifestyle choices. They found that this long-lived group was just about as likely to smoke, drink, eat poorly, be obese and shun exercise as a control group of about 3,000 people who had been born around the same time, but didn’t end up living as long.