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More and more senior citizens like the Greenbergs are deciding against traditional warm-weather retirement havens like Florida, Arizona and Southern California and are sticking closer to home. Realtors across the country say they are seeing 25% to 50% more retirees stay in or near their hometown, compared with five years ago. In fact, notes Kevin Roth, senior economist with the National Association of Realtors in Washington, "home buyers over the age of 65 move an average of just 15 miles away from their current abodes...
...Armed with these questions and more, TIME.com conferred with Professor William Waldock, associate director of the Center for Aerospace Safety and Education at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona...
Apparently, though, this didn’t phase the D-Backs entering the series. As Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling said of the Yankees’ mystique and aura, “those are the names of dancers at a night club, [not something we should be concerned about].” The D-Backs went on to decisively win the first two games of the series behind the arms of Schilling and Randy Johnson...
...Arizona somehow found a way to get three hits off Rivera in the bottom of the ninth—all of which resulted in broken bats—and then became the fastest expansion team to ever win a World Series when Luis Gonzalez blooped a single over Derek Jeter to drive in the game-winning...
What especially struck me during the post-game interviews was the absolute class shown by the Yankees in defeat. Manager Joe Torre didn’t make any excuses, instead saying that Arizona deserved to win after getting to “the best” (i.e. Rivera) when it counted...