Leisure and Lifestyle
The New York Times - July 19, 2008
You have heard that Fannie and Freddie, their gentle names notwithstanding, may cripple the financial system without a large infusion of taxpayer money. You have gleaned that jobs are disappearing, housing prices
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New York Times - July 3, 2008
RISK-AVERSE? Clueless as to what P.&.L means? You, too, can be an entrepreneur.
Not the hard-driving type who makes the business news pages. Rather, the laid-back, come-what-may variety. Many of them are part of
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The New York Times, June 24 2008Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60.
Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65.
Fact: The number of people over 100 doubles every decade.
Fact: As they age, people lose muscle mass
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The Boston Globe, June 26, 2008A 65-year-old couple needs $85,000 on average to cover
insurance costs for long-term care such as nursing home stays in
retirement, according to a study to be released Thursday by Fidelity
Investments.
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Reuters, June 23, 2008Record foreclosures and
limited access to credit will make it harder than usual for the
U.S. housing market to rebound from this slump, the worst since
at least World War Two, according to a Harvard University study
released
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The New York Times, June 21, 2008You’ve probably heard about the bumper sticker, even if you haven’t
seen it. It’s the one on Cadillacs in Florida and Lexuses in Arizona
that says “I’m spending my children’s inheritance.”
We’ve laughed at that for
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SFGate, June 16, 2008Ruth Britton enjoys her part-time work as a
college instructor. But, at 69, there are plenty of other things the
Greenbrae resident would like to do - volunteer, write, take classes,
travel.
The problem is, with the cost of living
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YahooNews, June 11, 2008For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the
government reported Wednesday, although the United States continues to
lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span.
The increase is due mainly
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The New York Times, June 10, 2008 The people who created this country built a moral structure around
money. The Puritan legacy inhibited luxury and self-indulgence.
Benjamin Franklin spread a practical gospel that emphasized hard work,
temperance and
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CNNMoney, June 5th, 2008Americans' net worth falls for the second
straight quarter as home and stock prices decline, but it may not hurt
consumer spending, experts say.Americans saw their net worth decline by $1.7 trillion in the first
quarter - the
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The New York Times, June 4th, 2008Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human
lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give
impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.
The study is based on
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Tennessean, June 3rd, 2008After a long binge of borrowing, U.S. consumers face a credit crunch
and a sagging economy. To sustain their living standards, many
Americans are doing what comes naturally: scrambling to raise more cash.As
consumers max out
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New York Times, May 25th, 2008First thing every morning, Lynn Pitet, of Cody, Wyo., checks her
computer to see whether her mother, Helen Trost, has gotten out of bed,
taken her medication and whether she is moving around inside her house
hundreds of
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CNN Money, May 21st, 2008The loans can help you tap the equity in your house. Just don't get tripped up by greedy salespeople.Last year, borrowers took out more than 132,000 reverse mortgages -
50% more than the year before and almost 10 times as many
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New York Times, Mat 13th, 2008DR. PAUL D. THOMPSON, a 60-year-old marathon runner and chief of
cardiology at Hartford Hospital, stood in front of a medical audience
recently and began his talk with a story about himself.
“I’ve been lifting weights
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