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Deluxe Links The New Yorker put this article behind their online pay-wall. It's worth paying a little money to read it, if you're over sixty, or planning to be, and curious about how it feels to be old. I'm betting you won't find a link to it anywhere else. Donald Hall, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, writes about what he sees "Out My Window" in winter. Link. Let's get smaller. Scientists say nano-wires work at atom-level sizes—they don't go quantum-crazy. Meaning: microchips—thus electronic stuff—can continue to shrink. Nature A techie worries about heedless old people using the Internet. ZDNet How much is Medicare paying health providers in your town? Run your mouse over this map and find out. Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care How will it be to grow old in America? Here's one projection: Department of How About That? Mark Twain invented a board game called "Memory Builder." Mental_floss (Thanks, Publisher's Weekly.) New study: old people think just as fast as youngsters. Healthday Brain-freeze? Don't blame the grass. Reuters
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 I get it, Newt. Old guys rule. Why didn't Newt Gingrich's ex-wife-eruption clobber him in South Carolina? I'm probably oversimplifying, but I think I know. Newt may be 68, but he's in shape. He's a hip old pol, an expert at pushing buttons. He's also a damn-the-torpedoes type. He's not above using his age to overcome his "baggage." It's his big message, and he put it right out there for the South Carolina Republican voters when he said, "I'm a 68-year-old grandfather!" He delivered that line more than once, always answering for his indefensible past. Like he was saying, O.K., I was a dude, and I did bad things, but come on! I'm sixty-eight now. Yep, lower testosterone level, less gender-driven stupidity. Newt figured out it's actually a political advantage of age. He's the first to take that advantage. South Carolina got it, Newt. Now, maybe Bill Clinton's got a 3rd Act, too.
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