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...from an Indian basket dating from 1676 to an unfinished stocking of 1837—was specially chosen for its particular ability to flesh out the romanticized notion of “the age of homespun” that Horace Bushnell coined during the centennial celebration of Litchfield, Conn. in August...
...months after the first cases of anthrax were diagnosed, the FBI still knows next to nothing about who has been spreading the disease through the mail and why--and the death of Ottilie Lundgren of Oxford, Conn., from inhalation anthrax makes things even more confusing. It's hard to imagine that the woman, 94, was a target. Her mailbox had no sign of the bacteria, and though her aging immune system may have been less resistant to spores than a younger person's, investigators are baffled. Unlike Kathy Nguyen, the New York City hospital worker who died four weeks...
...retirement savings are being flattened by the economic downturn. "I'm noticing that about three-fourths of my clients ages 55 to 70 are working in some capacity and don't really want to move too far from their business contacts," observes Adorna Carroll, a partner in the Berlin, Conn., real estate firm of Realty 3 Carroll & Agostini...
...fears of lost medical benefits. And although older temps may make less money than they did during their careers, their earnings often supplement retirement incomes. High-level executives average six months of work a year with average earnings of $135,000 a year when placed by IMCOR, the Stamford, Conn., placement company that pioneered the interim executive concept...
Terry Casto, 54, acted quickly when he retired as chief pilot and interim aviation director at AT&T. Since he had hired temp pilots from Corporate Aviators in Newtown, Conn., he called there. Now he lives--temporarily--in Charlotte, N.C., beefing up a large corporate flight department and earning 1 1/2 times his old salary. When time permits, he and his wife Karen go boating: Hilton Head in winter, Chesapeake Bay in summer. Says Casto: "I'm kind of in the catbird seat." There might be room...