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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once you decide to retire early, change your life-style to meet your new circumstances. In other words, cut back. This can mean using coupons at the supermarket, eating dinner at home instead of going to a restaurant, and buying some clothes at thrift shops, says Marc Eisenson, co-author of the new financial-management guide Invest in Yourself (John Wiley & Sons; $22.95). This also means cutting back on debt by paying off mortgages, winding down car payments and paying off credit-card bills. "The less debt you have, the more freedom you have," Eisenson says. "You don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Careers After Retirement | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

They beckon from supermarket-check-out racks with alluring packaging and absurdly tasty-sounding flavors: chocolate banana split, java chip, mocha latte swirl. But unlike candy and cookies, energy bars have staked out the nutritional high ground. They promise guilt-free bursts of energy and obscure but seemingly healthful extras--antioxidants, "fast-burn nutrition technology" and, in the breathless words of one, "31,000 mg amino acids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Power to You | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...drives a 1989 Acura, takes her lunch towork, uses coupons at the supermarket andcomposts...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Schor Explores Gender, Work, Consumption | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...knows to skip NBC News in favor of a more "high-brow" news source--a Web site devoted to his area of interest, PBS or "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio. Conversely, someone who wants to read salacious material about Elizabeth Taylor or Elvis can pick up a supermarket tabloid. These media outlets have been relegated to the margins, and hence have freed up the bulk of the media to what New Yorker editor David Remnick has called "infotainment...a fairly weak gruel." That is, all the news that's fit to sell...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: All the News That's Fit to Sell | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

After all the winners had been announced, thefour Nobel laureates auctioned off personal itemssuch as chewed bubble gum, supermarket shoppinglists and junk mail. Glashow's cigar butts fetchedthe highest...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Awarded In Zany Ceremony | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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