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| FH Boom Daily Digest – April 15, 2010 Posted: 15 Apr 2010 05:15 AM PDT Top News From Today's "Boomiverse" Baby boomers scaling back at work instead of retiring Overview: "many older baby boomers are not yet ready for full-fledged retirement. A wide range of workplace-related research shows two main themes behind their reasons for continued employment: Many like the sense of being engaged in the productive world, but most quite simply need the money and benefits." Report Shows Elderly Homelessness To Double Over Next 30 Years Overview: "A recent report released by the National Alliance to End Homelessness projects an increase in the number of elderly people experiencing homelessness in the decades to come. The Alliance predicts that the elderly homelessness population will increase by 33 percent by 2020 and more than double by 2050. The report reviews current federal housing and service programs targeted at the older homeless population." The Estrogen Dilemma Overview: "Here we are, two fast-talking women on estrogen, staring at a wall of live mitochondria from the brain of a rat. Mitochondria are cellular energy generators of unfathomably tiny size, but these are vivid and big because they were hit with dye in a petri dish and enlarged for projection purposes. They're winking and zooming, like shooting stars. 'Oh, my God,' Roberta Diaz Brinton said. 'Look at that one. I love these. I love shooting mitochondria.'" |
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