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Robert W. Stock, a New York Times retiree, was the editor of several sections including Sunday Business and Travel. He is currently a nonfiction writer/editor in New York and an aspiring novelist.

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Essay: Why Old Age Has Its Charms

posted: 18 days 8 hours ago

(Feb. 28) -- I saw Billie Jean King being interviewed the other day about her life now, at age 66, as compared to those magic years when she reigned as undisputed queen of women's tennis. "Emotionall ...

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Brain Fitness the Latest Fad to Prevent Memory Loss?

posted: 38 days 1 hour ago

(Feb. 7) -- A week before the world economic summit got under way in Davos, Switzerland, last month, a self-proclaimed "global summit" of a very different sort was winding down. Its 250 or so partici ...

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Essay: Sex After 60? Showing It Is Complicated

posted: 60 days 5 hours ago

(Jan. 16) -- Meryl Streep, 60, and Alec Baldwin, 51, play a divorced couple, Jane and Jake, who temporarily renew intimate acquaintance in the new hit film "It's Complicated." After their first repri ...

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Prison Forecast: Getting Gray and Overcrowded

posted: 83 days 8 hours ago

(Dec. 26) -- A Manhattan judge sentenced Anthony D. Marshall to one to three years in prison Monday for stealing millions of dollars from his mother, the late philanthropist and grande dame of New Yo ...

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Baby Boomers, Here's What's Coming Next

posted: 96 days 3 hours ago

Welcome, Baby Boomers. In another year or two you're going to start retiring and joining us old folks. You better get ready. After all these decades of being the toast of the town, the biggest-ever g ...

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Essay: So You Want to Live to Be 100?

posted: 113 days 2 hours ago

(Nov. 24) -- Gertrude Baines, the oldest person in the world, died in Los Angeles in September at the age of 115. She was a very senior poster child for that traditional birthday wish, "May you live ...

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Opinion: Why Older Drivers Need to Be Tested

posted: 124 days 2 hours ago

(Nov. 13) -- "How would you feel if it was one of your grandchildren you hit?" Brian A. Joyce used that question to convince his 89-year-old father to give up driving. "He was the best driver I ever ...

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Quotes: Trying to Take Away the Keys

posted: 124 days 2 hours ago

(Nov. 13) -- Families are generally the first to spot the dangerous older driver, but they have a hard time dealing with the problem. A recent survey found that 75 percent of baby boomers say they ha ...

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Essay: My Way of Death

posted: 138 days 3 hours ago

I don't like to talk about dying any more than the next guy, but sometimes it only makes sense. One of those times is right now – if you haven't signed any advanced directives. Those are the fo ...

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