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    <title>Slate Magazine - Geezers</title>
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  <title>Slate's 80 over 80: The most powerful octogenarians in America.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Slate's 2009 list of the most powerful octogenarians in America.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2232918/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:42:02 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>A special issue on old people.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Last week, the Republican Party nominated John McCain as its candidate for president. As you may have heard, McCain is no spring chicken. Having just turned 72, he would be the oldest man ever elected president of the United States if he wins. McCain's age has provided much fodder for the nation's political cartoonists and late night television hosts, who have mercilessly portrayed the candidate as a doddering coot.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2199576/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:55:40 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Slate's 80 over 80: The most powerful octogenarians in America.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Welcome to the "80 Over 80," Slate's first-ever list of America's silver lions: fourscore elder statesmen, business leaders, and cultural icons who have remained influential into their ninth decade and beyond. We've ranked these still-twinkling stars according to their power and importance, with extra credit given for energetic achievements post-80 and for being really, really, really old. (We're looking at you, Studs Terkel.)<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2199926/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:54:42 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Spend your money while you're still young—you'll be happier</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  We're frequently told, by news-you-can-use segments and bank ads hawking savings accounts, that Americans are not saving enough for their retirements. Yet just as often we're reminded that, given the fleeting nature of human existence, we should eat, drink, and be merry while we still can. Thriftiness is making a comeback in the wake of our latest speculative bubble, but some new evidence may help to tip the scales back in favor of the carpe diem approach to life. It turns out that money can buy you happiness—but young people get a lot more happiness out of their dollars than old people do.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2199463/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8340" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8340" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Ray Fisman</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:22:38 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What happens when old people go online.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The jokes are hilarious: "Elderly Woman Destroys Internet," and "Google Launches 'The Google' For Older Adults" from the Onion. On College Humor, there's a regular feature about the idiotic things that parents do with computers. (A sample: "My dad thinks that the faster you click on the go button on Internet Explorer, the faster the Web page will load.") Alas, the stereotype of the technologically clueless oldster is unfair. It's only those old folks who never go online who say things like: "Can't you look it up on the Google?" According to the Pew Internet and American Life project, over-65 Web users are just as proficient as the young though less adventurous in the kinds of things they do. Perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised. Old people have lots of free time, an unhealthy obsession with their bodies, and arcane hobbies. They're practically teenagers.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2199920/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Michael Agger</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:05:43 EST</pubDate>
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