• The star, whose hits include I'm Outta Love, also suffers from the bowel condition Crohn's disease and had an operation for this at the age of 13 for the illness.

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  • In late 1953, Wright agreed to design the home at the age of 86 for chemist Abraham Wilson and his wife, Gloria Bachman.

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  • In late 1953, Mr. Wright agreed to design the home at the age of 86 for chemist Abraham Wilson and his wife, Gloria Bachman.

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  • He won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of 28 for a series of articles in the Washington Daily News that were judged responsible for clearing a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy from McCarthy-era allegations that he was a security risk.

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  • Born February 5 in Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira, he made his debut for Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese Super Liga at the age of 17 after winning international caps for Portugal's youth sides.

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  • At present, about one in five pupils do not reach the expected level for English at the age of 11.

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  • At the age of 29, for example, Jennifer Fan is already a Wall Street veteran.

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  • Norman Schmidt was sentenced to 330 years by a Colorado judge in 2008, at the age of 72, for a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

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  • The article reported that Tripp had been arrested in 1969, at the age of 19, for grand larceny and later pled guilty to loitering.

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  • The Mountfort boys are at the young end of the recommended age range for children's digital cameras, but their photo-friendly upbringing more than makes up for their shortness of tooth.

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  • The average age at end of service for the last five Supreme Court justices has, for nearly all of the last two centuries, been above 60, and above 70 for most of the last 30 years of the 19th century, when the average U.S. 40-year-old man's life expectancy was about 65, according to Colgate University economics professor Michael Haines.

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  • For Gascoigne, at the age of 31, there seems little time left for a reconciliation, unless the midfielder can rediscover his lost form and fitness with Middlesbrough this season.

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  • MSPs unanimously approved the first stage of the sexual offences bill which reforms the law of rape and equalises the age of consent at 16, for boys and girls.

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  • While companies market videogames to children as young as nine months, and videos to newborns, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time at all for children under the age of 2.

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  • The family of Mr Walton, who grew up in Leeds and moved to Ireland with his parents at the age of 15, were in court for the trial and verdict.

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  • He dropped out of international contention in 1994 and suffered from a high-profile falling out with Bertie Vogts, but forced his way back at the age of 37 with a series of impressive performances for Bayern.

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  • Charles left his home city of Swansea to sign for Leeds at the age of 17 and settled in the city after his football career was over.

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  • There were no such problems for the evergreen Perry, who is producing his best form late in his career, starring in the U.S. Ryder Cup triumph at Valhalla and mounting a strong challenge for his first major at the age of 48, making him the oldest Masters champion if he is successful on Sunday.

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  • The average age of the last five popes at death has been above 70 for nearly all of the last four centuries older than world-wide male life expectancy at birth today.

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  • Smith will also hold contract talks with Weir over the coming weeks and, at the age of 39, the Scotland defender looks set to remain at Rangers for another year.

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  • Itzhak Perlman, for instance, arrived at Juilliard, in 1959, at the age of thirteen, and studied there for eight years, working with both DeLay and Ivan Galamian, another revered instructor.

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  • In 2004 while studying for final exams at University of the West of England, Wells, then age 21, went shopping for a pair of prescription glasses.

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  • The minister will also look at changes to the law so parents with children of school age must be available for at least part-time work.

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  • At the age of 19 his first article for the the London Evening Standard was published.

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  • An action man both on and off screen, he later took up hang-gliding at the age of 64 and got married for the fourth time at 76.

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  • In 1918, women over 30 were given the right to vote, quickly followed by the passage of a law enabling women to be eligible for election as Members of Parliament at the younger age of 21.

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  • Kitson won the Perrier Comedy Award in 2002, at the age of twenty-five, and his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful.

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