According to NBC News :  major winter storms to wallop two-thirds of U.S., could bring heavy snow and hazardous ice.  About 45 million from Kansas to Maryland should brace for blizzards and thunderstorms. Also from NBC News:   Alcoholic drinks   should carry cancer risk warning labels , U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in a report. Medical experts who cheered the announcement shared   what to know about the risks of drinking .   Alcohol already carries a warning label about risk of birth defects.  The more you drink, the higher the risk of cancer. Tomiko Itooka of Japan, the oldest person in the world, passed away on December 29 at the age of 116.  She was born in 1908.  Loved bananas and Japanese drink Calpis.  The oldest person now is  116-year old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas   (below ).  Only two years ago, another nun, Sister André of France, born Lucile Randon, died at the age of 118 as the olde...

  For some, there is Heaven.  Of course, Heaven means different things to people, as, for example, to Fred Astaire singing   Cheek to Cheek   in Top Hat, it's dancing with Ginger Rogers.  This version finished #15 on AFR's 100 Years of 100 Songs, and   Rotten Tomatoes  reviewers gave the movie a 100% rating.   Then there was that  promise of 72 virgins in heaven  for Muslim martyrs, but you had to be a male to take advantage of this reward.  Then again, maybe not.  However, more recently, it was determined that there was a mistranslation of the  Quran , and the truth was that it was raisins, not virgins.  Some have even pinpointed white raisins. To most, though, Heaven is an ultimate place where you live in harmony and comfort forever.  Yes, an  eternal afterlife .  Yet, maybe this is only for Christians and Muslims.  Although Buddhists can attain Nirvana and Hindus can become one with the Bra...