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Researchers are investigating medicines that selectively kill decrepit cells to promote healthy aging — but more work is needed before declaring them a fountain of youth

It’s that time of year when bosses look at their balance sheets and send employees packing. Legally, they don’t even have to explain why—and usually, they don’t.

Eating mindfully means using all of your physical and emotional senses to experience and enjoy your food choices which can increase gratitude and the overall eating experience.

Last Friday, with this recent bomb cyclone, 53.7% of the nation was covered in snow; more than any time since record-keeping began -- As the oil industry knowingly lies to us and rakes in profits

Author RW Johnson's latest aberration is a mix of fiction and lazy research that misrepresents anti-apartheid struggle leaders.

A closer look shows we’re already approaching normal.

We need to be far more generous with each other, able to hold conversations without resort to insults and abuses. Out of disagreement comes understanding. But out of malicious slander only comes disorientation.

It's a Wonderful Commie Plot; Wired's Top 13 for `13; Black-owned TV Disappears; $50m for Greenwald Media Venture; FAIR's P.U.-litzers; Euro Teens are Done with Facebook

An almost unreported strike in South Korea, which has just come to an end, epitomises how a `free' market can be incompatible with the liberty of workers to defend their own security.