Wednesday, July 21, 2004

It's Never Too Late To Start ...

1. "93-year-old bachelor finally marries"
   <http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9949887^13762,00.html>
"After years of waiting for the right woman, a 93-year-old bachelor in remote
 north-eastern India pronounced himself a happy man this week after wedding
 his 63-year-old landlady"

2. "94-year-old peer passes driving test"
   <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3084177.stm>
"At 94-years-old, Lord Renton has become one of the oldest people in Britain
 to pass the driving test for the first time"

3. "Kenyan grandad joins primary school at 84"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1024980.htm>
"An 84-year-old Kenyan grandfather has joined primary school to learn to read
 after the government introduced free primary education last year"

4. "Man, 87, takes on university degree"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1025017.html>
"An 87-year-old man is starting a degree in Ecological and Environment
 Protection at a university in Romania"

5. "Woman earns diploma at age 90"
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/05/26/473320-ap.html>
"So after outliving three husbands and letting seven decades pass since her
 last high school class, Babson decided a few years ago it was time to go back
 to school"

6. "Pensioner, 91, called up for army"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_853111.html>
"Army spokesman Colonel Alexander Barthou said the letter had been supposed
 to go to an 18-year-old, also from Bad Ischl, with the same name"

7. "Grandmother trading baking cookies for combat"
   <http://www.politicalpuzzle.org/archives/000234.php>
"56-year-old reservist being called to active duty for first time"

8. "101-year-old man parachutes into record books"
   <http://www.wftv.com/news/3424706/detail.html>
"A 101-year-old man is believed to be the world's oldest skydiver after he
 accepted a dare from friends and jumped out of an airplane Wednesday at
 nearly 10,000 feet"