Word: travels
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...order to accept a post-doctoral fellowship to study with Anna Freud in London, Eisenberg attempted to travel to England but was redirected due to housing shortages and logistical difficulties. In the end, Eisenberg turned to the world map, just as her grandfather had, choosing the best child psychiatry program available at the time as her destination-Johns Hopkins University...
When it does, it will find a lot to study. While satellites usually travel horizontally around a planet's equator, Surveyor orbits vertically, flying over both Martian poles. If there is organic chemistry on Mars, it will probably be in a wet, carbon-rich region, and the ice caps--made largely of water and carbon dioxide--fill that bill nicely...
This gift of longer life means more time to travel, learn, try out new careers and give something back to the community. And while it also challenges individuals to prepare themselves physically, emotionally and financially for an extended span of years, some recent trends have been encouraging. The proportion of chronically disabled older Americans has fallen steadily in the past decade, a trend Suzman calls "one of the most important findings in health demography that I've seen in years." Advances in fitness, he says, can help ease the burden on the generations that will have to foot the coming...
Today's seniors can be world travelers too. At Boston-based Elderhostel, a global network of educational and cultural institutions that offer 10,000 travel programs to voyagers 55 and older, participation has soared from 220 travelers in 1975 to more than 300,000 today. Spokesman Michael Frilling says clients are as old as 100, and the total number of participants could easily triple by 2020. In Chevy Chase, Md., travel agent Helena Koenig, 67, packages "Grandtravel" tours that bring together adventurous grandparents and their grandkids for trips to destinations as exotic as Kenya. "It's the most exciting travel...
...very long ago, people admonished one another to act their age. But what can that mean today, when octogenarians serve in the Peace Corps, centenarians travel and septuagenarian former Presidents jump out of planes? Or when men and women in their 50s and 60s launch new careers and rightly feel that youth--like the Star Wars Force--is still with them? "In the long run," economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, "we are all dead." But that long run is growing longer all the time. Thomas Wyatt offers a better motto for Americans as he writes his novel and raises...