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BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Mine That Bird was a long shot to win the Kentucky Derby. You some day living in a community for people aged 55-plus? Not so much.

Three teenagers who grew-up in foster care have a new home thanks to an independent living program in Wilmington.

Glorious scenery and attentive staff. Freshly prepared meals, delivered twice daily. Even the odd DVD. Nothing to do but eat, snooze - and, just occasionally, have sex.It is not the latest boutique hotel, but a new home for Sichuan's pandas. Construction began this month on new facilities, which will cost 1bn yuan (£100m), to replace the world's largest giant panda breeding centre, the Wolong nature reserve, destroyed in last May's earthquake in China.Four of the victims were keepers at the famed Wolong reserve, close to the epicentre of the shock; several more staff members risked their lives saving the creatures they had reared. The breeding centre and surrounding sanctuary are home to about 150 pandas.'It was very scary; the hills collapsed and cracks opened in the land,' said Huang Yan, deputy director of research.Pandas stopped eating and ran away when they heard the slightest sounds. To add to the keepers' concerns, many were pregnant. 'One of them was Guo Guo, who was saved by u

ISLAND LAKE, IL--(Marketwire - May 6, 2009) - Graduation is a special time that signifies the beginning of the rest of their lives for many young people. Celebrate the special occasion this year wit...

Finally, here is a research study which has something positive to say about advanced maternal age. Women who have babies the natural way (e.g. without the aid of assisted reproduction) late in life tend to live longer than other women. In fact, women who become pregnant at age 45 or ...

ADDIS ABABA, May 6 (IPS) - The global financial crisis is on everyone's lips. With first hand reports of job losses, house foreclosures and citizens living on credit card debt, the impact of the crisis on the individual worker in the developed world is clear. In Africa, there have been threats of closures and retrenchments in the Zambian copper mines and Botswana's diamond mines, amongst others. But the impact on the individual citizen and African women in particular, given the existing gender inequalities, has not been well documented.