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...York State set up a program called Seniors Out Speaking to attract recent retirees who would like to develop a useful new field of expertise. The center gives the retirees intense training in the complex array of available Medicare plans, after which they can choose to give monthly hour-long presentations at various community venues. Or they can sign up for "Medicare Minute," returning regularly to the same senior center with a different five-minute speech on an aspect of the new insurance law. "It's appealing to boomers," says volunteer director Betty Duggan, "getting up and being an expert...
...Quickly, I found that people didn’t really want to hear my stories,” said Ashley Michalek, a senior at the College of the Holy Cross. The morning session of the conference focused on the issue of reintegration. The keynote addresses and the hour-long “small group re-entry exercises” allowed students to talk about their experiences and aimed at “bringing people together who had experienced that at the same time,” DiMauro said. DiMauro added that the conference was a unique way to help people...
...enjoy within it.” Yet as much as I admire the sentiment behind this statement, the slim volume is ultimately kind of a joke. How many of us actually read the essays? How many of us actually participated in the discussions? After four essays and an hour-long chat, the University leaves us on our own to sort through all the ethical complexities of attending a place like Harvard—or not to do so, as is too often the case...
...hour-long demonstration, coordinated by Service Employees International Union Local 615 under its “Justice for Janitors” campaign, opposed a potential Harvard transfer of several cleaning contracts which, according to union representatives, could cost several employees their jobs...
...Apple Computer. At Apple's last quarterly meeting, the former Vice President led a discussion on stock-option "burn rates" and other esoterica of employee compensation. He keeps all those commitments alongside a busy schedule of speaking engagements, often about one of his greatest passions: the environment. His hour-long multimedia presentation on climate change is being translated into Chinese so that he can present it in Beijing later this summer...