Word: agee
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...they do so as a way to increase bookings and fill rooms, but that doesn't change the fact that these programs are often excellent and usually of particular interest to a sophisticated audience. The Hyatt Regency in Beaver Creek, Colo., co-sponsors an education program for those over age 50 called Explore '99, with wide-ranging areas of study to choose from: astronomy, global issues, painting, history, music. The week-long program costs $1,950 per person, which includes some meals as well as the courses and accommodations. In high season, lodging alone at the tony Hyatt starts...
Medicare was a treacherous battlefield before anyone suggested a new entitlement. Most experts agree that adding items and fundamentally reforming Medicare will require some kind of sacrifice by beneficiaries, either paying higher premiums or delaying the eligibility age. But suggesting such reforms may carry a high political price. "There are some in both parties who want the election to be based on whose fault it is we did nothing about Medicare," says Democratic Senator John Breaux, whose yearlong Medicare commission failed to come to consensus largely over the issue of how much coverage to provide for drugs. Says Breaux: "Republicans...
...nothing else, that ought to train a spotlight on McCain and give him a chance to stand as the Washington-based outsider against the Austin-based insider. In a two-person primary race, McCain hopes his personal story will implicitly carry a critique of Bush's. At the age of 40, Bush was still finding himself in Midland, Texas; McCain had already served as a naval aviator in the Vietnam War and endured 5 1/2 years of hell as a prisoner of war. And while Bush has used his father's name and connections to get ahead in business...
...Parents remain the most significant people in children's lives, until age 14 or 15, when they have more fully embraced peer culture," says Jean Bailey, coordinator of child and adolescent mental-health services at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Personal values about religion, sex and obeying authority are shaped primarily shaped by parents right up until the teenage years, when things suddenly shift. While kids may be exposed to sex in the media, "there's a lot of anxiety about what the whole deal of sexual behavior is," says child psychologist Anthony Wolf, author...
...said they were believers. Nearly half claimed to attend religious services every week, and 8 out of 10 say they pray. Sure, they may enjoy dipping into the sultry waters of Dawson's Creek on Wednesday nights, but their ideas about sex would cheer William Bennett: 76% of those ages 12 to 14 say it's "somewhat or very important" to wait until marriage before having sex. When the other 24% were asked to name an appropriate age for premarital sex, these pubescent puritans settled on 23. The average age mentioned by parents...