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Glazman, for one, is convinced. Fresh's Sugar Açaí Age-Delay Body Cream, along with Borba's Age Defying Skincare line, is among the first beauty products to harness the berry's benefits???proving that it's not always such a bad thing to wear what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazonian Wonder | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...serious social problem by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who initiated the social security pension system in 1884. He arbitrarily set the age for receiving benefits at 65, and his model has been followed ever since in much of the Western world. The same age for receiving benefits???and therefore being a candidate for forced retirement?was enshrined in the U.S. Social Security system when it was established in 1935, and was copied in almost all the private pension plans that mushroomed after World War II. Yet in Bismarck's time, only a small percentage of the population lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, the Revolt of the Old | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...extended family lives in a two-story frame house bracketed by vacant lots, gutted houses and apartment buildings. Albirtha has not held a job since 1968. One reason: her wage would be less than her $420.60 monthly welfare payment plus the $298.80 she receives in Social Security survivors' benefits???and she would have to pay the cost of a baby sitter besides. Says she: "It's no easy job just sitting here from one year to the next doing nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Underclass | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...bill (see THE NATION). It started out with some sensible and overdue reforms, but many were gutted by irresponsible actions in the Senate. The 1969 bill that the Senate passed last week is loaded with so many tax reductions?as well as a costly 15% increase in social security benefits???that the President has threatened to veto it. "I intend to use all the powers of the presidency to stop the rise in the cost of living," said Nixon at a press conference shortly before the Senate acted. "If I sign the kind of bill which the Senate is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RISING RISK OF RECESSION | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...spending long hours in private consultation with Nikita Khrushchev, as with Charles de Gaulle, Kennedy was engaged in personal diplomacy to an extent never before attempted by a U.S. President. There were potential benefits???and obvious hazards. Both Khrushchev and De Gaulle have greater power than Kennedy to translate their personal impressions into political action within their countries. And if, in their taking of his measure, either found him wanting, then the meaning to the future could be dire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Measuring Mission | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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