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What fun is retiring well-off if you're not all there to enjoy the ride? Anyone unfortunate to have witnessed the ravages of Alzheimer's certainly understands. But almost all of us have experienced some kind of preview of diminished capacity to come -- glasses "lost" perched right atop our brows;...

This just in: you need a certain amount of money to retire comfortably. Experts caution this number varies widely person to person, and can be of unsettlingly-large magnitude. Let's all thank the marketing geniuses at ING for these deep insights, courtesy of a new, eight-figure marketing push that...

It's every player's dream: to hand-pick their next coach. Ask certain big-name free agents why they moved from the Patriots to the Jets, then quit Gang Green for the Cowboys. They'll chant in unison, "I wanted to play for Bill (Parcells) again." Now that Brett Favre has called it quits, he's in...

The recent news on the mass retirement of air traffic controllers was stunning on many levels. For one, the sheer numbers and their potential impact on safety and on-time travel. Of nearly 13,000 fully certified controllers on the job in September, 2002, only some 11,000 remain today. A Wall...

My PhD reads psychology, not economics, so I won't bet the house on the Bush stimulus package's chances of preventing or softening a recession. But I have counseled and coached many who were outright terminated, downsized out, or who feared a pink slip in their next pay envelope. The conversations...