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Albert Chen, executive director of graduate programs at the test-prep company Kaplan, Inc., said the biggest implication of the new policy is that students will probably no longer take the MCAT exam for practice or without preparing thoroughly...
...fact, Lewis says, retirees who have recently left the corporate world, both voluntarily and involuntarily, are starting their own businesses at a 15% higher rate than those who stopped working just three years ago. Adds David Corbett, CEO of New Directions Inc., a Boston consulting firm that helps senior-level executives transition into new careers: "There is an extended middle age these days. Retirement occurs at 80 to 85, not 60 to 65. People are not ready at 65 to move to Florida and play golf seven days a week...
Reading about and watching the poignant new PBS documentary about his life (co-produced and co-directed by Time Inc.'s Bennett Singer and scheduled for national broadcast on Jan. 20) and reading his prose, one is struck by a central, inspiring fact. Rustin never wavered in his belief in true racial integration. He saw the civil rights movement not as a protest against America or an indictment of it but as a way for America to live up to its own principles. In stark contrast to Malcolm X, with whom he civilly debated, Rustin emphasized not what white Americans...
...keep in touch on a regular basis and know everything that is going on in each other's lives. "You realize as you get older that a good relationship with so much history means much more than trying to prove you're right," says Blanke, CEO of Life Designs Inc., a career-and life-consulting company in New York City. "And I feel so much better now that we're close again...
...Still, at least one company is trying to stamp out the problem. Five years ago, Warner/Elektra/Atlantic (WEA, sister company of TIME Inc., which is the parent company of Time) in the U.S. began destroying all unsold albums in-house, crushing them before turning the waste over to scrap recyclers. "It's much cheaper to dump them," says Rick Wietsma, co-chief operating officer for WEA. But "it was enough of an issue with the corporation that we didn't want to leave any room for doubt." The new practice improved relations with artists, who don't have to contend with...