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Legions of retiring baby boomers, troubled by the high cost of living--and aging--at home, are venturing far south of Florida and Arizona to make their golden years extra mellow. Although places like Playa del Carmen and Cancún in Mexico have long been retirement havens, ever venturesome boomers are settling deeper into Central America, lured there as much by the laid-back ethos as by the lush forests and beckoning beaches. Costa Rica alone, according to the foreign-retiree association Casa Canada in San José, plays host to 50,000 Americans. That migration has spawned a real estate boom...
...Renault car sales from the current 2.5 million to 3.3 million, relaunch 13 existing brands and roll out 13 new models. Ghosn also plans to step up Renault's activity in luxury, SUV and crossover categories and exploit its effervescent markets outside Western Europe, where two-thirds of the extra 800,000 cars are expected to be sold...
...preparation for a typical musical has its familiar anxieties: cutting a favorite song, replacing a dialogue scene, finding some extra business for the star. That's nothing compared with the three-year ordeal of bringing Middle-earth to life. The mostly British creative team, beginning with playwright Shaun McKenna, had to figure out how to choreograph the complex battles Tolkien described; how to visualize the dozen realms in the saga and the dozens of characters of many species; how to blend narrative, drama and music in a three-act production--and do it all without retakes or post-production computer...
...question," says Hal Pashler, psychology professor at the University of California at San Diego. It turns out that very automatic actions or what researchers call "highly practiced skills," like walking or chopping an onion, can be easily done while thinking about other things, although the decision to add an extra onion to a recipe or change the direction in which you're walking is another matter. "It seems that action planning--figuring out what I want to say in response to a person's question or which way I want to steer the car--is usually, perhaps invariably, performed sequentially...
...rookie forward Jimmy Fraser had a career night in the Harvard men’s hockey team’s 6-2 victory over No. 7 Cornell in the ECAC Championship Game on Saturday.Entering the contest with only one goal and 11 assists, Fraser made the most of his extra playing time when sophomore Jon Pelle left the ice with a lower leg injury in the opening minute. The freshman tallied two power-play goals and added two assists—a feat that earned him a spot on the ECAC All-Tournament Team...