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...America Online. She has also worked as a producer for NBC News, as a lounge singer and as a free-lance writer. Amy grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York, and her work draws on experiences with her large extended family. She attended college on a partial field-hockey scholarship--which helped prepare her for this week's column on sportsmanship. Now living in Washington with her 10-year-old daughter, Amy teaches Sunday school and occasionally substitutes at a local nursery school...
Protesters still claimed a partial victory...
...increased greatly since Social Security payments started in 1940, but the age for retiring with full benefits is still 65. Next year it is scheduled to begin increasing gradually to 67 by 2027. It could be raised further to 70. But raising the earliest age for retirement with partial benefits from the present 62 to 65, as many ardent reformers propose, would be a mistake. Miners, laborers and other manual workers have enough trouble continuing their exhausting toil even to age 62. For many, staying on the job until they are 65 or older could imperil their health--or even...
...married women: if a couple makes, say, a combined $60,000 a year, husband and wife would each be credited with $30,000 of earnings for Social Security purposes. This arrangement would be costly and no doubt difficult to sell to male legislators. But it sounds fair--a partial remedy for the discrimination that still keeps the pay of even many highly skilled professional women below that of men doing the same...
Drumsticks, anyone? If you're partial to chicken legs, here's good news for you. Thanks to some clever genetic engineering, scientists at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., have come up with a way to grow birds with an extra pair of legs...