Indianapolis, Colts, all of us are less for it

INDIANAPOLIS − Colts owner Jim Irsay was gentle, generous and imperfect. He made public, painful mistakes. He did private, precious things. Jim Irsay died Wednesday afternoon at age 65, having “passed away peacefully in his sleep,” according to Pete Ward, the Colts’ chief operating officer and Irsay’s righthand man for decades in Indianapolis. The heart…

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Don’t wait until menopause to strengthen your bones 

I confess: If I think about skeletons, it’s around Halloween. I especially enjoy the yard displays of larger-than-life skeletons engaging in mundane activities, like walking skeleton dogs. But our own skeletons are something we should be thinking about year-round, especially as we age. Heading into midlife and beyond, bones can lose their heft. A drop…

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