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...Although Moen also indicates that the higher tuitions at private schools would lead her to a state school, the exorbitant cost of going to medical school does not seem to have much of an effect on Harvard undergraduates. “I do not hear from my students that cost is a major factor in whether or not they apply to med school,” Michaelson writes...
DIED. ALFRED MOEN, 84, plumbing-fixture pioneer; in Destin, Fla. Moen hatched the idea for the single-knob faucet as a college student in 1937 after he was scalded by the then ubiquitous two-handled variety. His namesake company claims to sell more than 70% of the kitchen faucets...
...retired. Fifty-one percent of married women ages 55 to 64 were in the labor force last year, compared with 36% in 1980. "Unlike prior generations of retirees, in which the wife was most often a homemaker, today's couples have two retirements to think about," says Phyllis Moen, a psychologist conducting an ongoing study on retirement at Cornell University. According to Moen, when one person continues to work after the other retires, all kinds of issues can arise--from how much time to spend together and how to divide the housework to how to help the retired spouse find...
This kind of transition would be a much more feasible option for other retirees, Moen believes, if only employers encouraged it. Because many pensions are based on an employee's last three years of service, phasing out of a current career slowly is financially unattractive. And while employers may provide information about how to prepare financially for retirement, most don't talk to workers about how to plan another precious resource--their time. Additionally, volunteering organizations are largely missing out on the untapped resource of skilled retirees...
...plan proposed for their city by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the nation's civil defense programs. The switch came after more than 1,000 residents crammed into a downtown theater and listened as speakers denounced the plans as "a grave joke" and "an illusion." Said Betsy Moen, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado: "The plan doesn't even mention radiation. Once a bomb is launched, it will be an all-out war and no community in the U.S. will be exempt...