Four years older, and wiser
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THE Sydney Paralympics brought record ticket sales, television ratings, a new batch of sporting heroes. And then, without warning, came the shame.
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When our son Daniel, now 19, was about 10 years old, he was fascinated by the stock market, cattle futures, and pork bellies. He actually read newspaper financial pages. To Daniel, the game of money was an extension of his fascination with math.
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You may not be as young as you feel, but research has found that a positive attitude may delay the ageing process.
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Children who were enrolled in a preschool project in 1962 tend to be more productive citizens in their 40s than children who were not enrolled.
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By Ron Ledgard, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 10--Jon Overholt is 28, but he already can count on 81 years of experience as a small-business owner.
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People who adopt four healthy principles can add as much as 14 years to their lives, study reveals
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We now know who our president will be for the next four years. President Bush has been returned to the White House for another four years.
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Every seven years since 1964, the filmmaker Michael Apted has released another installment of "The Up Series." These films document the lives of a diverse group of Britons from the ages of 7 to, most recently, 49. One of the patterns that emerges is a dramatic illustration of the Jesuit motto that inspired the series: âGive me a child until he is 7 and I will give you the man.â You can clearly see how these kidsâ very different personalities were fully formed at age seven.
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The year is new, but some things never change.
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Meg Fink, a 14-year-old 8th grader here, just had to make sure.
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Four years ago, on the other side of the world, Doug Mientkiewicz's life was about to change.
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NEW YORK  - Air passengers should feel quite safe when the pilot is getting on in years, a new study shows. Older pilots actually show less decline in their aviation skills over time than their younger peers.
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By Ben Lyon. When weâre in our early twenties, working the university scene, it can be hard to imagine where we will be thirty years down the road; it can also be scary if you have so much you want to use your youth for.
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Why are we so afraid of our children moving back in while they get on their feet? A new report says college grads from a peak "boomerang" year were doing just fine a decade later
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It's critical to have a will in place, even if you're young.
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A new study suggests that older children tend to have higher IQs than their younger siblings. Now scientists just have to figure out why.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Starting school at the age of four is "stressful" to children and does not help their education, according to a major review of English primary schools which also concluded kids take too many tests too early.