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The Elderly: root of society’s ills
This is a bad way to start a geezer’s day: Deakin University researchers questioned 113 people about their views on the over-65s for a report commissioned by the Victorian aged care organisation...
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Polish anti-abortionists invoke Hitler
It gets worse. After yesterday’s post, in which the linking of abortion to “Black Genocide” by Georgia Right to Life was reported with sadness and a little rage, I received a link to a story in the...
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Cycling a relief for Parkinson’s?
That old saw about bike-riding as something one never forgets has taken on a new meaning. According to a report in the latest New England Journal of Medicine, cycling skills learned long ago can remain...
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Guns as art and in the world
At my granddaughter’s art school, student work features what struck me as an awful lot of weapons: handguns, automatic rifles, daggers. “Well, Gran,” she replied to my comment on this high degree of...
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Russian orphan Artyom, & another orphan story
Artyom and Vasya came from the same part of the globe as adoptive Americans — but the similarities end right about there. This is a personal perspective on another, happier-ending orphan story....
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Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus speaks on micro-lending — and world hope
Image via Wikipedia Recently, someone remarked to Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi banker/ economist/ crusader against poverty, that he must be a very rich man. “I said, why would I be a rich man?” he...
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Does this sound exciting? New TV channel for the over-50s
As if there weren’t already about 500 more TV channels than anyone can possibly manage, news comes from Britain about Vintage TV’s plans to launch in a few months. It is the generation that has had it...
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Best city for geezers? NY lays claim
Image via Wikipedia New York City seems to be all aglow in being named by the World Health Organization to its Global Network of Age-friendly cities. As Clyde Haberman reported about the event in the...
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Afghanistan suggestion: Make tea, not war
Image via Wikipedia A glimmer of good news from the endless bad-news war in Afghanistan: the people doing the fighting are in touch with someone who was winning, a long time before they started...
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Moving Mom & Dad — Abroad
Image by Lincolnian (Brian) via Flickr Retirement village? Assisted living? Co-housing? Age-restricted or aging-in-place communities? Inter-generational cooperative? This space has explored many of...
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