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...longer believe they can retire when they had previously expected to, up 11 percentage points from a similar survey done at the end of 2008. The study, which polled 1,451 workers from Aug. 14 to Sept. 14, found a record 28% expect to be working full time past age 67, up from 20% surveyed...
...Clearly the notion of retiring at age 67 or 65 is behind us. People are looking at that through the rearview mirror," says Thompson. Workers have been rattled by the lost equity in their homes, retirement-plan losses and long-term concerns about Social Security. "Those are three key drivers that are affecting people psychologically," he says...
...hand-washing across the country may have had some collateral benefits, not only in helping to reduce H1N1 infections, but also the spread of other common diseases in Bolivia. "We see a steady 10% to 15% drop in the rate of incidence of acute diarrheal diseases in all age groups, compared with last year's numbers at this time," says Dr. René Lenis, Bolivia's director of epidemiology, referring to data collected on the number of weekly cases of diarrheal disease reported in medical centers nationwide in 2008 and 2009. (See how not to get the H1N1...
...country are not to be blamed. They should stay here and we should resolve their status," Likud minister Limor Livnat tells TIME. The government is still debating the order and it may yet be countermanded or changed. It has happened before. In 2006, Israel naturalized 567 families with school-age children...
...from early on to [execute] a task on their own from beginning to end. In southern [European] countries, children are dependent on what people tell them to do. Southern societies have preserved an independent way of raising children, resisting the modern educational practices that encourage independence at an early age." (See pictures of kids' books come to life...