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  RETIREMENT PROMPTS MAN TO SHAPE UPStephen Jellison won't miss the 67 pounds he left behind when he retired last year. "I was about to retire, and I didn't want to start this part of my life in that condition," he said. He weighed 264 pounds at 6 feet 1. His doctor had put him on cholesterol and blood pressure medicines 10 years earlier. "It kind of scared me when he put me on blood pressure meds," he said. "High blood pressure doesn't run in my family." He had more |
  THE SKY ISN'T FALLING ON SOCIAL SECURITYWhat if you knew for certain that you'd have enough income and savings over the next two decades to pay all your expenses, but only three-quarters of your bills in the years after that? That's essentially the status of our nation's Social Security system. It's tempting amid headlines of Social Security "going broke" to assume that our nation's safety net won't be around when we retire or become disabled. Don't believe it. Social Security is more sound more |
  POLL: HALF OF AMERICANS CALL FACEBOOK A FADHalf of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected asking price is too high. The company Mark Zuckerberg created as a Harvard student eight years ago is preparing for what looks to be the biggest Internet IPO ever. Expected later this week, more |
  FINANCES CAUSING RIFTS FOR AMERICAN COUPLESFinancial matters are the most common source of discord among American couples, prompting an average of three arguments per month, according to a national telephone survey conducted for the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) by Harris Interactive. More than a quarter, or 27 percent, of those who are married or living with a partner said disagreements over money are most likely to prompt a spat. That made it the most more |
  HGTV HOST'S DECORATING ADVICE HELPS SENIORSJust minutes before she was to join a girlfriend for dinner the other night, Jackie Smythe joked that the sole purpose for giving birth to two daughters was just so they'd one day decorate her newest home. "That's why I went through all that pain to have them," she said with a twinkle in her eye and a hearty laugh. "Thank goodness I didn't stop with one." At 82, Smythe, a resident of Sunrise at Ivey Ridge, a senior living facility just off more |
 SENIORS TAKE JOBS TYPICALLY FILLED BY TEENAGERSIf junior can't get a job, blame grandpa. Battered retirement investments have led older workers to stay in, or re-enter, the workforce. And the situation has caused a shift in the average age of workers, with the percentage of young people dropping to the lowest level since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics started keeping track in 1948. At this point, the percentage of people over 65 in the workforce is at its more |
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When we were young,62 was old.
It was twice as old as the people we trusted.
Three times as old as we were ourselves.
Older than our parents were.
As old as our grandparents.
But here I am.
And I only remember that I am old when I look in the mirror.
Or someone offers me a seat on the subway.
Unlike the lady in the poem, I do not wear purple.
Purple is an unflattering color on me.
I do continue to wear red and bright blue because they are “present” colors.
It is hard to ignore me in red.
But I am often ignored by young people who know more than I do about
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Q: LOVE 'N LIFE: MOVIN' ON...OR NOT?
DEAR "OH CAROL:"
My boyfriend will be moving to the other side of the country in the next 6 weeks because of job requirements. We’ve decided that we’re going to call it quits. In our minds, long-distance relationships are just not worth it. But he and I are still a couple until he moves. Meanwhile, I’ve met another guy that I’d like to spend some time with. Would it be wrong if I were to get together with this other man - just for drinks and to start getting to know him? Since my current relationship is ending soon, do you think it’d be okay?
A: DEAR 'MOVIN' ON:'
First of all, assuming (because you wrote to me) that you are over 50, consider yourself very fortunate that you have a man in your life that you refer to as your "boyfriend!" It isn't easy finding someone the second time around. With that in mind, you say that he is relocating, and you both think that long distance relationships (LDRs) are 'just not worth it?’ more
When it comes to fashion, you have to admit that women seem to accept some really dumb things that men have either never been subjected to or have skillfully managed to avoid.Let's start with shoes. Up until the year 1630 men and women wore the very same style and cut of shoe but somewhere around 1660, during Louis XIV's reign, women's heels started to get higher.
Coincidence? I think not. I’ve chosen to blame that mishap on Louie himself. History tells us that his vanity went beyond the legal limit and he would not permit anyone to approach him in any aspect of his life, from military to millinery. With this in mind I’m convinced it was he who mandated that women should stand unnaturally and uncomfortably in high heeled narrow shoes meant to be worn by people with only three toes. more
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