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...retired, it might mean you have to sell the vacation home or go back to work or try to start a business." There are lots of services healthy retirees can offer, such as helping those who aren't so healthy by doing chores or working as a handyman or gardener. "Baby-boomer children would be happy to pay someone to shop for their parents or check on them regularly," she notes. Other options are working in day-care centers and substituting in schools. For boomers concerned that Mom and Dad's elder care is a looming time bomb, she says...
...Italy since 1982, bringing much of the country's industrial, commercial and transportation sectors to a halt. That followed a March rally that drew more than a million protesters to Rome to decry the threat to Article 18. Bruno - who has also worked in a pizzeria and as a handyman - is one of the millions of laborers not protected by Article 18. "It doesn't change anything for me," he says. "I'm already fireable." Still, Bruno says he supports the union's position. In fact, more than two-thirds of Italian workers are not covered by Article 18 - which...
When New Mexico Governer Gary Johnson—who also spoke at Harvard over the weekend—proclaimed himself “The American Dream” for starting his own handyman company out of college, somehow it sounded more pompous than inspirational...
...into a sex-farce sitcom for seniors or a Hallmark Hall of Fame special, the romance between SUZANNE PLESHETTE and TOM POSTON seems ripe for the CBS development department. Pleshette, 64, who played BOB NEWHART's wife on The Bob Newhart Show, and Poston, 79, who played Newhart's handyman on Newhart, are getting married 30 years after they first met. Newhart couldn't be happier. "Not too long ago, Suzy lost her husband, and Tom lost his wife," says Newhart. "I would see Tom on a fairly regular basis, and he was just a fish out of water...
...connected with that story is big business. Last year more than 36% of sales in Britain's $2.5 billion toy market were of licensed toy characters, up 4% from 1999. HIT Entertainment, the U.K. company that created the preschool favorite Bob the Builder, estimates that the four-digited animated handyman has generated $140 million in British retail sales of related toys and other merchandise since his launch in 1999. "It's a matter of the right image at the right time," says Mike Broadfield, Just Group's head of consumer products. "You go out and create the demand. Once...