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Boomers better be brainy
From Sabrina Pacifici: Job Market for Aging Boomers Will Favor Brains Over Brawn "Baby boomers looking for jobs in growth fields that welcome older workers will want to dust off their diplomas rather than their treadmills, according to a new report from the Urban Institute...

Less Brawn, More Brains
The reason the Third Wave works now, where it did not work well in, let us say, the 80s is that we are finally completing the arduous, hurtful and mournful task of transforming from a brawn based society to a brains based society...

Washington Post three-parter on aging in America
A package about aging in America appeared in the Washington Post's "Outlook" section yesterday. Articles include --"encore careers" for baby boomers, --the challenges that divorce has created for children who now need to care for aging parents and step-parents --the...

High-Tech Devices Promote Aging in Place for the Elderly
Will aging baby-boomers who wish to remain at home in their later years (called “aging in place”) soon be able to do so while they are monitored remotely by their adult children who use high-tech devises to ensure the “old folks” are safe and compliant with their health care regimen? According to the [...

Disability Backlog Must be Cut to Brace for Boomers
The Social Security Administration is making progress in reducing its backlog of disability claims, but without more resources, it will like fall further behind as aging boomers overwhelm the system, Comptroller General David Walker said...

Are You a Perfect Target for a Scam
Aging baby boomers perfect target for scams "Fraudsters are always looking for opportunities to prey on society's most vulnerable and are masters of manipulation, and focus on exploiting such human traits as greed, fear, excitement and gullibility...

Whole Foods Market Recalls Bulk Hazelnuts
Whole Foods Market Recalls Bulk Hazelnuts

Billion Dollar Ice Market
Probed for Price-Fixing

G&J Gourmet Market Cocoa
Recalled for Possible Melamine Contamination

Apple Inc.
allegedly maintained an illegal monopoly on the digital music market.

Stock Market Losses
alleging bad financial advice and conflicts of interest.

KB Home and Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly conspired with appraisers to boost housing prices as the market crashed.