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Graffiti artist David Choe set for Facebook windfall

February 6, 2012
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Continue reading the main story A US graffiti artist who painted Facebook’s offices is set to become a multi-millionaire when the social network begins trading as a public company. David Choe, who first spray-painted the walls of Facebook HQ in 2005, accepted shares in payment for his work. Now the site is planning to...
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‘World’s oldest’ yoga teacher a spritely 91-years-old

December 23, 2011
Bernice Bates, 91, is the world's oldest yoga teacher, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Picture: AP

    BERNICE Bates is 91 years old and more flexible than people a third of her age. Guinness World Records recently awarded her title of Oldest Yoga Teacher. While there might be other, older yogis, Ms Bates, completed the lengthy documentation process required by Guinness. Her daughter nominated her earlier this year. Ms...
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Aboriginal community Yarrabah crowns new king, the only traditionally-recognised monarch in Australia

December 17, 2011
The coronation: Jabaan is crowned King of Yarrabah. Pictures: Stewart McLean. Source: The Cairns Post

AUSTRALIA’s sole king rules a rich, fertile land of 158 sq km bounded by turquoise seas and white sand beaches dotted with palm trees. Honouring the past, embracing the future, he’s a very 21st century king. Yarrabah’s first monarch for almost 20 years has identified cultural awareness, respect for elders and tackling illegal poaching...
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Penny Wong and Sophie Allouache’s labour of love – their new baby girl Alexandra

December 14, 2011
Family joy ... Penny Wong and partner Sophie Allouache / Pic: David Mariuz

FINANCE Minister Penny Wong has picked up a whole new challenge, but this one had nothing to do with a reshuffle or a budget blowout. Just a week after Ms Wong drove a hard-fought change to the ALP’s platform on gay marriage, her partner Sophie Allouache has given birth to a healthy baby girl....
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Woman Hasn’t Used Money in 15 Years

October 24, 2011
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Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old woman from Germany, gave up using money 15 years ago and says she’s been much happier ever since. Heidemarie’s incredible story began 22 years ago, when she, a middle-aged secondary school teacher emerging from a difficult marriage, took her two children and moved to the city of Dortmund, in Germany’s...
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Terminally ill cabbie chose to have his body mummified for Channel 4 documentary

October 18, 2011
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Torquay’s Tutankhamun revealed: Terminally ill cabbie chose to have his body mummified for Channel 4 documentary  By COLIN FERNANDEZ One ruled over a vast kingdom from his royal palace by the Nile. The other reigned over the roads from behind the wheel of his taxi in Torquay. But despite their vastly different lives, and the...
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The Steve Jobs credo: ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’

October 7, 2011
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Like most commencement addresses, the June 2005 speech delivered by Steve Jobs offered the college graduates pearls of wisdom as they finished their studies and prepared to embark on life’s way. But the oft-cited graduation speech to students at Stanford University also offered a fascinating glimpse into the twists and turns of the Apple...
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Spanish duchess, 85, marries 60-year-old toyboy

October 7, 2011
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Spains fabulously wealthy 85-year-old Duchess of Alba married a civil servant 25 years her junior on Wednesday after overcoming her childrens opposition and she celebrated by dancing flamenco. The twice-widowed aristocrat kicked off her shoes and danced on a red carpet at the entrance of her 15th century Palacio de las Duenas in Seville...
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At 102, therapist is too busy to stop working – latimes.com

October 3, 2011
Hedda Bolgar receives an Outstanding Oldest Worker Award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. In her speech, she talked about how there’s dignity and purpose in work, and grace in aging. (Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images / October 2, 2011)

By Steve Lopez October 2, 2011 Lately I’ve been wading into streams of mail from readers approaching death. Some are fighting it, some are afraid, some are ready to go. And then I heard from two readers with an update on Hedda Bolgar. I wrote about the Brentwood therapist three Septembers ago, when she...
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Spain’s Duchess of Alba gives away £3.1billion fortune to marry commoner

August 12, 2011
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Spain’s fabulously rich Duchess of Alba has signed away her enormous wealth, string of palaces, priceless works of art and vast swathes of Spanish real estate to marry for love at 85. Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, said by Guinness World Records to have more titles than any other royal on the planet, wants to marry...
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