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...with so much else in the baby boomers' long march from birth to senescence, retirement communities are being reinvented--and with good reason. Only a generation or two ago, simple actuarial arithmetic didn't give most retirees a whole lot of years to fill after they quit work. Those with the means would fly south or west for a few quiet years of shuffleboard or bingo at places like Del Webb's famed Sun City developments in Arizona before passing into dependent old age. But the health and wealth that many boomers are bringing into retirement are giving them...
...good recommendation for Harvardians: if we can learn to live like everyone else, then when the inevitable class revolution comes, we can simply dress up like them, too, and the proletariat will have to be content with smashing Yale and Princeton instead. Play Money, or, How I Quit My Day Job and Struck It Rich in Virtual Loot Farming by Julian Dibbell While hardcore gamers might view gaming as a “night job” akin to prostitution, slam poetry, or overseas military contracting, the rest of us know that the only tangible benefit of playing games...
Before Travelers, Weill had built a small New York brokerage firm into the second biggest in the land, Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which he sold to American Express in 1981. Boxed in at Amex, he quit and later started over with Commercial Credit, a Baltimore consumer-finance company. To that he added Smith Barney, his old firm Shearson, Salomon Brothers and Travelers insurance...
...trouble or, like with Apocalypse, wait 20 years to hear that was really good." Coppola's career capstone was to be a utopian story set in Manhattan called Megalopolis, an original script he had been tinkering with since 1984. "You know those advertising-agency guys that were gonna quit and write a great novel? It was like that," he says...
...interviews and light on gags.) For these fans, TV is just one option in a big digital menu. Without an army of Cyranos to write Jon's, Stephen's and Conan's jokes, those viewers could find watching them an easy habit to break. No, they won't quit TV altogether. But they'll be glad to ditch their shakier TV commitments and click over to MySpace or Second Life. And the advertisers will gladly follow...