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Low-cal diet a miracle?
WASHINGTON - A nutritious but calorie-restricted diet can increase life expectancy and reduce the risk of age-related diseases, according to recent research. The study, conducted over 20 years on dozens of rhesus macaque monkeys, provides new insight into the way the phenomenon works
Redefining women around age 40: Between 35 and 55 is the best time
ISTANBUL - It is a common belief that women over 40 are no longer attractive and that, especially during and after menopause, their bodies and characters change for good. An expert and a columnist address this issue and come up with a totally opposite conclusion. It seems that prejudices about middle-aged women are changing positively. The period between 35 and 55 is the best time in a woman’s life, says one expert.
A Journey to the world of India through dance
ANKARA - Rajesh Rapaka is the trainer of Turkey’s first professional Indian dance group, Nataraj Dance Group, and has been living in Turkey for many years. He is satisfied with Turkish women’s interest in Indian dances but complains about Turkish men’s prejudices against dancing
Turkish films run for film festival’s Golden Tulip
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s biggest film festival, the Istanbul International Film Festival, opens with 14 Turkish films running for the Golden Tulip in the national competition. Here’s a look at some of this year’s runners, which are already known to Turkish audiences
CHP office adds voice to Brussels: Bureau chief
BRUSSELS - As Europeans barely understand what is happening in Turkey where the political agenda changes on a daily basis, Turkey’s main opposition party's representative to the EU says the CHP presence in Brussels will contribute to pluralism in Europe and to better understand Turkey
Hit ’Slumdog Millionaire’ child stars face uphill battle
MUMBAI - Plucked from one of Mumbai's teeming slums to star in the Oscar-nominated hit 'Slumdog Millionaire,' Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubina Ali are India's real slumdog millionaires. The filmmakers help the children, but it doesn’t guarantee success
The heyday of gilding in the Ottoman Empire
ISTANBUL - The illustrious years of tezhip (gilding) in the Ottoman Empire lasted from Fatih Sultan Mehmed to Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, approximately 100 years. Then in tandem with the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire, the quality of education and training, standards and materials underwent a similar deterioration
Investors melt Israeli pensions on land deals
TELAVIV - Israeli pension funds and individual investors lose more than $5 billion, a quarter of what they had invested in corporate bonds, due to the property meltdown in the United States and Britain. Now, labor federation Histadrut is threatening a general strike, demanding compensation.
Özpetek moves away from his cultural limbo
ISTANBUL - Having exorcised his demons, those being detached characters from the upper-middle class living in a distorted reality that is culturally and socially nowhere, acclaimed Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Özpetek puts lonely and estranged Italians from the lower-middle class at the center of his uniquely Italian ‘Un Giorno perfetto’ (A Perfect Day)
