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Headline-harvesting speculative assertions that humans start aging long before many really believe they’re “mature” are not new.  But now three researchers from Canada’s Simon Fraser University, two of them  doctoral students, plus an associate professor, have published research findings – “Over the Hill at 24” – that they say proves those earlier assertions. 

Tomorrow much of the world celebrates the day that Jesus became Christ.

Tomorrow is Domingo de Ramas, Palm Sunday, marking Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

Once the chill winds of November died down, 16-year-old Concha Rosales – like all campo females – shed her huaraches to go barefoot.  Concha used her home-made huaraches only when she strapped on spurs to go into the cerro aboard a dun-colored gelding, tending to livestock or fixing fence – something few Mexican women did at that time.

“The Last Giant” silently boomed the huge black headline of Newsweek International’s cover story on the death, April 4, 1998, of a man who could have won the Nobel Prize for either poetry or prose.  He won it mostly for his poetry, though at home and beyond he was best known for his prose, which was uniquely culturally probing, challenging and eloquent.

In October, 2013, some business journals were inventively discovering ways that the “unexpected” gap between Mexico’s economy and that of the United States would “fade.”