World’s Oldest Woman Gives The Key To Her Long Life Before She Died

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Misao Okawa was a few weeks shy of 117 years of age when she did on April 1, 2015.

Japan mourned the loss of the world’s oldest person Misao Okawa on 1 April [2015].

Born on March 5 1898, Okawa finally died of heart failure just a few weeks after she celebrated her 117th birthday.

But not before she revealed what she considered to be the secret to her long and happy life. And it’s something many would probably agree they could get used to doing more of.

“Eating delicious things is a key to my longevity,” said Okawa she told The Japan Times.

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Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures

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Iowa burglary suspects Photo: Iowa Gazette

An Iowa newspaper is accused of pro-white bias after it handled the same alleged crime between two different sets of suspects in radically different ways.

Blogger Rafi D’Angelo at SoLetsTalkAboutIt.com pointed out that in reports filed on successive days, the The Gazette in Cedar Rapids printed mug shot photos of black burglary suspects and yearbook photos for white burglary suspects. Continue reading “Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures”

The Family Of 8 Year Old Boy Killed By Boston Bomber Testifies During Trial

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A photo of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Bombing. Photo: Boston Globe

An 8-year-old boy who once urged people to “stop hurting each other” was literally blown apart by a homemade bomb as he watched the 2013 Boston Marathon with his family, jurors heard Monday.

Federal prosecutors rested their case with grisly testimony about how the bomb Dzhokar Tsarnaev placed near the marathon’s finish line tore through the bodies of Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old grad student.

A second bomb placed by Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, killed Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police three days after the bombing. Continue reading “The Family Of 8 Year Old Boy Killed By Boston Bomber Testifies During Trial”