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What's in it for the elderly? Older Americans are beginning to recognize the overlap between children's needs and their own. Florida is seeing a sharp increase in the number of grandparents raising grandchildren. And many reason that pushing issues like children's health care makes cash-strapped lawmakers more conscious of guarding benefits such as Medicare for their other fragile constituency, the aged. "It's not just that we're afraid Florida doesn't care enough about children," says Pat Stripling, 60, head of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Miami, who is lobbying for juvenile-justice reform this spring...
...shot." His secret: "a lot of hard work," including a daily five-mile walk and a 20-to-25-minute aerobics workout most mornings. For 35 years he has limited himself to a one-meal-a-day diet. Ameche would rather spend more time with his six children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren than make another movie. But he has no intention of slowing down. Says he: "I do everything I want to do--in moderation of course. There's no reason to stop growing when you're 77." And at the top of your form...
...survived by two daughters, five grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren...
White is survived by his wife Barbara, his two sons Andrew and Gregory, their respective wives Elizabeth and Amie, and his three grandchildren Olivia, Alexander, and Jonathan...
...first glance, the Museum of Fine Arts seems one of the least likely venues for cutting-edge indie concerts. Many cringe after imagining chest-high Bermuda blue-hairs dragging pants-wetting grandchildren through room after room of faded pictures of this or that aged, plump noblewoman...