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Foundation Joins Effort to Tap Boomer Experience
Source: YourHub.com
by Kate Parmelee In the '60s, Boomers helped change the world. As the first generation of Boomers enters their 60s, will they do it again? National research is showing that as the baby boomer generation ages many want to work, learn and volunteer in ways…
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Autism 'chaos' as one-third wait over year for diagnosis
Source: Irish Independent
Critical chance to intervene early being missed By Fiach Kelly and Edel Kennedy MORE than one in three parents trying to find out if their child is suffering from autism are being forced to wait over a year for a diagnosis. Official HSE figures obtained…
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City marks anniversary of resident ID program
Source: New Haven Register
Original Source By Mary E. O'Leary, Register Topics Editor NEW HAVEN - The city celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Elm City Resident Card program Thursday by announcing several additional features that will be introduced in a pilot program this fall. Kica Matos, the city's…
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Groups sue over New Mexico voter registration law
Source: Miami Herald (Associated Press)
Original Source By SUE MAJOR HOLMES Voter rights advocates want a judge to overturn New Mexico's law on registering voters, saying it has a chilling effect on registration drives and groups' ability to encourage people to participate in the political process. The lawsuit, filed Thursday…
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Gardai criticise HSE services after boy forced to stay in station
Source: Irish Independent
Original Source By Ralph Riegel, Tom Brady and Louise Hogan IRELAND faces an imminent tragedy involving vulnerable children because of the chronic shortage of 'out-of-hours' social worker resources. The warning came as the Health Service Executive (HSE) was heavily criticised by a powerful garda association…
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Census: Many Ky. Baby Boomers aren't retiring
Source: The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)
Decision to keep working has many benefits, experts say Original Source By Marcus Green Even as Kentucky's Baby Boomers near traditional retirement age, they and other older workers make up one of the state's fastest-growing parts of the work force, according to new Census data.…
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SA in danger of not reducing child mortality
Source: The Cape Argus (South Africa)
Original Source By Yugendree Naidoo Health experts have warned that South Africa's chances of meeting United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to child mortality are becoming increasingly slim. The warning is the latest red light on child mortality after a Medical Research Council study…
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The elder-care crunch
Source: The Baltimore Sun
13 Jul 2008 Original Source By Tanika White, Sun reporter After four years of medical school and three years of internal medicine training, Jessica Colburn could have chosen just about any field of medicine to practice. Gastroenterology would have been lucrative, brain surgery exciting. At…
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Obama's No-Brainer on Education
Source: Newsweek
Moderates would respond to a Democrat willing to slip the ideological stranglehold of a liberal interest group. Original Source by Jonathan Alter One of the best things about the democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good?…
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Talking Down and Stepping Up
Source: The New York Times (Op-Ed)
Original Source Op-Ed Columnist By CHARLES M. BLOW The Rev. Jesse Jackson wants to do what to Barack Obama? Ouch! And why? Because he thinks Mr. Obama's speeches on fatherhood have been too hard on black men and not hard enough on The Man? I'm…
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