BROOKLINE – Harvard University's Grant Study reveals underlying reasons for being healthy and happy in the later years of life, according to Dr. Robert Waldinger, the decades-long research project's current director.
What indicators can help predict good health and happiness in a person's later years only recently became a focus for researchers conducting the study. The project started as a way to identify prospective military officers among Harvard College men around the beginning of World War II.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The families of three Maine residents who died when the cargo ship El Faro sank in October have accepted settlements from the ship's owner.
Court documents say the El Faro's owner, Tote Services Inc., has agreed to pay $500,000 to the families of Michael Holland, Danielle Randolph and Dylan Meklin for "pre-death pain and suffering" and an unspecified amount for economic loss caused by the deaths.
