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...retiring with full benefits is still 65. Next year it is scheduled to begin increasing gradually to 67 by 2027. It could be raised further to 70. But raising the earliest age for retirement with partial benefits from the present 62 to 65, as many ardent reformers propose, would be a mistake. Miners, laborers and other manual workers have enough trouble continuing their exhausting toil even to age 62. For many, staying on the job until they are 65 or older could imperil their health--or even life...
...Alexis de Tocqueville, in Volume Two of Democracy in America, writes of the exact instinct which stirs our love of instant explanation. Americans, he wrote, have "an unrestrained passion for generalizations," which is rooted in our democratic instincts. Believing that all humans are fundamentally alike, the democrat has "an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything" and seeks "to explain a group of facts by one sole cause...
...collect a quarter of a million dollars for each person he killed. "Is there any crime you can commit these days and manage to be blamed for?" Wanda Jackson wrote in a scathing letter to the Raleigh News & Observer. But several jurors in the civil trial have become ardent advocates for better treatment of the mentally ill and visit Williamson at the mental hospital where he is confined. And other townspeople sympathize with Williamson as a promising young man who somehow spiraled into madness...
...William Hsiao, a School of Public Health (SPH) professor and ardent critic of inefficiencies in the US health care industry, offers similar critiques of medicine in Hong Kong in a report to be released today...
...William Hsiao, a School of Public Health (SPH) professor and ardent critic of inefficiencies in the US health care industry, offers similar critiques of medicine in Hong Kong in a report released today...