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America's Oldest Person Lived Life With Gusto, Dies at 114

Lessons from a life lived long?Sing songs with gusto. Attend your first Red Sox game at age 107 and lead the crowd in a rousing rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Joke often. And have darn good genes.Until her final weeks, before dying in her sleep at the age of 114 on Sunday at a New Hampshire nursing home, Mary Josephine Ray, the oldest person in America and second-oldest in the world, also played cribbage, watched her soap operas and kept a snifter of port nearby.

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How cool?!

How to Lose Weight While Drinking

Women who don't drink alcoholic beverages may not like to hear the following piece of news. But, those who do drink, at least moderately, will be happy to hear that a drink a day (and even then some) will keep obesity at bay.

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Go grab a pint ladies...it may help keep ur figure! ;)

Pensioner Deejay Rocks The Clubs in Paris - Tonic

As most of her peers are tucking themselves into bed with a cup of hot chocolate and a romance novel, this glamorous pensioner is heading into the Parisian night, with her bling-tastic headphones in one hand and her mix of happy house records in the other. And she's 69-years-old!

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It's never too late! Just gotta do the work.

Oscar Red Carpet Recap: The Good Soundbites - Tonic

Interspersed between the somewhat mind-numbing blather that was E!'s Academy Award Red Carpet Coverage (I don't mean to sound negative, but we know which direction horizontal stripes go, Jay Manuel), Ryan Seacrest and the gang did manage to speak with celebrities and nominees.

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Four-Legged Hero Receives Britain's Top Animal Honor - Tonic

Yeah, yeah, those soldiers in The Hurt Locker were pretty good at identifying IEDs — otherwise known as improvised explosive devices — but we're not sure how they would fare against the UK's Treo, an expert bomb-sniffing dog who might have single-pawdedly averted more than one disaster with his savvy snout.

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Seriously cute!

Sheryl Crow, Guster, Dave Matthews Launch Green Music Group - Tonic

What do Sheryl Crow, Guster, the Barenaked Ladies, Willie Nelson and the Dave Matthews Band have in common? They're all founding members of the new Green Music Group, a coalition of musicians and fans committed to environmental action.

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Chile Quake May Have Shortened Our Days (No, Really) - Tonic

Scientists using complex computer models have calculated that the quake should have moved Earth's figure axis (the axis on which Earth's mass is balanced) by 2.7 milliarcseconds (3 inches). Earth’s figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis; they are offset by about 33 feet. Scientists say this shift will shorten the day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second.) But while it's a teeny, tiny amount of time, it's nonetheless permanent.

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Shatner's Myouterspace.com Blasts Off - Tonic

You've really got to hand it to William Shatner. Even though his days on the bridge of The Enterprise are long behind him, he has cobbled together an astonishing career of practically begging us to join him as he mercilessly pokes fun at himself. Whether through his forays into music or his multiple stints as affable goof pitchman for myriad products, Shatner has retained a consistent and consistently amusing presence in the media landscape.

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Seth's Blog: You rock

Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).

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Good thing to remember. Hope u all get ur 5 minutes today!