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...probably outdated. Some experts also suspect that members of the museum staff have been stealing, both last week and possibly in previous years. Even those who doubt such involvement, such as Jeremy Black, an ancient Iraq specialist at the Oriental Institute at Oxford University, are hard-pressed to explain some of the thievery. "We've seen it stated that some of these looters got in with keys," he says. "How they got those keys, I don't know." Soldiers who have belatedly been assigned to guard the museum told TIME they had heard eyewitness reports of staff members' sneaking large...
SAVINGS Keep up, or step up, the pace. Working longer doesn't always work out. Health problems and corporate downsizing explain many of the 40% of today's retirees who exit the work force earlier than they had planned, according to the EBRI survey. If you do save less--reasoning that you'll have more work years to reach your financial goals--consider buying long-term-care insurance, which most people never do but which you may need if you become unable to work and require special treatment, like nursing-home care...
...Miller is at least 26 years away from getting his senior discount at the movies. And yet he can explain--and enjoys explaining--the minutiae of Social Security survivor benefits and how a senior can take advantage of a national free-eye-exam program. Every day, working as a one-man operation from his home office in Norman, Okla., Miller responds to queries from seniors and their friends and relatives on issues affecting the elderly. Crafting this into a nationally syndicated column, aptly dubbed "Savvy Senior," Miller provides information in a fun, folksy manner, sparing readers legalese...
...about? "I didn't want the show to be just a collection of Henri's best photographs," says curator Robert Delpire, founding director of the Centre National de la Photographie and a close friend who has worked with Cartier-Bresson since 1952. "I wanted to try to explain the man behind the myth, and how he became who he is, to show the exceptional coherence of everything he's done." The show includes a raft of family-album pictures, memorabilia and snapshots of Cartier-Bresson as a PoW in World War II. "Luckily," says his wife, the photographer Martine Franck...
Students also asked Kagan to explain the logic behind the “one-exam-grading system,” which dictates that grades for each class are usually based on a single exam at the end of the semester...