Word: retiree
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Just as the title doctor becomes part of a physician's name, so the role becomes part of his identity. Advanced esophageal cancer, diagnosed three years ago, forced oncologist Dan Frimmer to retire at age 58. The cancer doctor had become a cancer patient, but 25 years of medical practice...
Losing in Sydney, no doubt, would bother her more. So she trains 30 hours a week: 20 on water, 10 in the gym. "After I retire," she vows, "I'll never go into another gym again." The grind of a sport that has no off-season has left Brunet, 31...
It's no hype to call Felix Savon's boxing record Herculean: 266 wins, nine losses; six world amateur championships since 1986 and gold medals in the past two Olympics. You'd think a Cuban fighter who has owned the ring like that for the past 15 years could retire...
But the big economic issue--whether to cut taxes (Bush) or retire debt (Gore)--amounts to an embarrassment of riches. Either would be good for the market, and that's no accident. Nearly half of all households now own stock, a record count. Both Bush and Gore, like the rest...
But imagining a golden rice, Potrykus soon found, was one thing and bringing one into existence quite another. Year after year, he and his colleagues ran into one unexpected obstacle after another, beginning with the finicky growing habits of the rice they transplanted to a greenhouse near the foothills of...