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Working longer as you live longer (and in better health, thanks to modern medicine) has many benefits beyond simply repairing the damage from your miscues during the Internet boom. For starters, working at something you enjoy has been linked to physical and mental wellness in later years. So continued employment may make sense, even if you don't need the money. If you are newly reconciled to a longer work life, consider these issues...
...stations gave me exactly 10 seconds. So I used what I had learned: "Yes, I'm 40!" I yelled. "I used to be heavyweight champion of the world. If I miss you with my left, if I miss you with my right, I'll belly-bump you, boom!" People called the networks and asked to see more of me. Soon Madison Avenue was calling me. I hesitated, but finally I decided it would be O.K. if I sold only things I believed...
...those lovelorn Gen Xers who've been waiting for geek-hunk actor JOHN CUSACK to show up outside their windows with a boom box: he's not coming. Cusack is dating MEG RYAN, whom he first met when the two stars lent their voice talents to Disney's cartoon epic Anastasia. Which is somehow appropriate, given that Cusack and Ryan, who is five years older, form what may be the cutest couple the human species has ever produced. Seriously, if they ever have a kid, it's gonna come out a Care Bear. The two are notorious for dating their...
...decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional-jet travel, Botelho committed Embraer to lighter, faster, farther-ranging and less expensive jets, which proved attractive to airlines even though they weren't--and still aren't--considered as technologically advanced as Bombardier's. Says Doug Abbey, executive director of the Regional Air Service Initiative, an industry advocacy group in Washington: "Embraer is the risk-taking...
...women, with innovative products and sales pitches. A change in the tax laws has encouraged small and midsize kura to produce more profitable, premium sake, a move that has ignited the current fad for jizake, or local sake. And kura big and small see potential abroad, where a sake boom has stepped up demand. Despite its troubles--or perhaps because of them--the industry is producing its best sake ever...