We all hope Mr. Jobs enjoys the best of health and lives to a ripe old age.
This is a rare trait - only one in 6, 000 people in industrialised countries reaches such a ripe old age.
We want to think that our parents will be healthy, fine, live happily until a ripe old age and die peacefully in their sleep.
But the wider prize, an understanding of how to stay healthy into a ripe old age, with all that may bring to medical science, will ultimately be shared by everybody.
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Putting these ideas together suggests that women whose genes are likely to carry them into a ripe old age should also undergo a later menopause (and therefore be able to reproduce for longer) than those genetically destined to die young.
However, shortly after the first of the new memories went on the market in 1990, Toshiba began pressuring him to accept a "promotion" that, at the ripe old age of 47, would have put him in a job with no subordinates.
K-longs, as befits their name, live to the ripe old age of a hundred-millionth of a second.
The best fossil and DNA evidence today indicates it was a rare Neanderthal who lived past the ripe old age of 35.
At the ripe old age of 40, a Greenpeace protest event today still looks remarkably like it did in the 1970s.
Allan Bateman played at the ripe old age of 38 and a lot was made of his advancing years in the build-up to the game.
In 1999 actuaries assumed that a British man retiring at 60 would on average live to the ripe old age of 84.
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The wasting and weakening of the tissues that accompanies senescence would be a thing of the past, and old age could then truly become ripe.
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Pushed to get a law degree by his lawyer father, he toiled as a stockbroker, not publishing his first novel until 1863, at the ripe old age of 35.
One might expect that at the ripe old age of 100 the company would be creaking along with brittle bones, weak knees, a bad heart, and finding it hard to get up in the morning.
Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Book for Leaders, to prevent others from going through what I went through at the ripe old age of 24.
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