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...that offer 10,000 travel programs to voyagers 55 and older, participation has soared from 220 travelers in 1975 to more than 300,000 today. Spokesman Michael Frilling says clients are as old as 100, and the total number of participants could easily triple by 2020. In Chevy Chase, Md., travel agent Helena Koenig, 67, packages "Grandtravel" tours that bring together adventurous grandparents and their grandkids for trips to destinations as exotic as Kenya. "It's the most exciting travel market out there," Koenig says...
Even seniors who can't get out much are finding ways to keep active. At the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville, Md., Elise Fitzpatrick, 83, works out daily in a state-of-the-art fitness center that gleams with treadmills, strength machines and stationary bikes. An Olympic-size swimming pool is just down the hall. Fitzpatrick, a retired professor of nursing, is strengthening her arms and upper body while awaiting an operation to replace her left knee, which she injured in a fall. "Exercising keeps you in the best possible physical and mental condition," Fitzpatrick says...
...violates our physical privacy in a far more serious way than someone who uses the Internet to steal from us. Most of us would rather receive junk mail than deal with door-to-door salespeople. Basically, the hoodlums have changed the tools of their trade. PAWAN K. BHARTIA Mitchellville, Md...
Cecil B. DeMille would have fun with this epic. Naturally Charlton Heston plays Coach Murphy. Michael Crichton '64 (MD '69) would write the screenplay...
Television is just great as far as the Delmars of Gaithersburg, Md., are concerned. Bonnie and Steve Delmar, who live only a few miles from the Raspets, let their 11-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy watch as much television as they want, sometimes as much as 18 hours a day. There are two TVs in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in the basement, one in the parents' bedroom, and one in each child's bedroom--seven...