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...degree of the shift was surprising," says Wes Thompson, president of Sun Life Financial in the U.S. The economic environment was already troubling when the survey was done a year ago, and "we didn't expect the jump to be as significant - up to 65%" during the latest poll, he says. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...also become more skeptical about government benefit programs' being there for them in retirement. Approximately 42% said they were "not at all confident" that they would receive Social Security benefits in retirement that would be comparable to the benefits current retirees receive, which is up from 33% a year ago, and 38% were skeptical they'd get Medicare benefits at comparable levels to today's retirees, up from 27% a year earlier...
...particular. I just find them endlessly interesting and funny and moving. In the Al Jolson story, the first story I wrote, I had followed ape language experiments for many years—I just was interested in them. And I got to meet Coco in California many years ago, the gorilla who was taught sign language and that was a truly life-changing experience, sitting down with this gorilla who could communicate with me. Yeah, it was extraordinary. So, I’d heard about this story years before I even started writing, and I just knew sometime that...
Okay, okay, so we’re being a little overdramatic. Still, ladybugs have been a very real problem at Pfoho. Two days ago, Benjamin Rahn, a Pfoho tutor, wrote this message in an email sent over the House list...
That’s what the Stanford Cardinal thought back in June. Six days ago, the adage was proven false–in Harvard’s favor...