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Wall Street losses hurt Montana state pensionsHELENA, Mont. -- Montana's state pensions systems reeling from big losses in the stock market face a projected shortfall of more than $2 billion three decades from now.The grim but not unexpected news...
Canadastandard.com Saturday, October 31, 2009Canada's three-legged retirement stool is looking a little ricketyThe pension reform proposals unveiled by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty this week address some real problems.But in a wider sense, they also illustrate why talk of reforming Canada's retirement "system...
Canadastandard.com Saturday, October 31, 2009Detective runs over elderly womanA decorated NYPD detective from an elite unit drunkenly mowed down a Bronx grandmother as he drove home yesterday following a night of boozing -- in a deadly episode eerily similar to one involving an...
Chicago Chronicle Saturday, October 31, 2009Boston Medical Center's Elders Living At Home Program Receives Grant From Admninistration On AgingThe Elders Living at Home Program (ELAHP) at Boston Medical Center has received a three-year, $864,400 Aging in Place Grant from the Administration on Aging (AoA). The grant will be used to develop, i...
Chicago Chronicle Saturday, October 31, 2009Twin girls born to father aged 71A 71-year-old man from the Black Country is thought to be the UK's oldest father of twins after his 25-year-old wife gave birth to two girls.Richard Roden, from Walsall, who has 10 other children, sai...
Canadastandard.com Saturday, October 31, 2009Elderly man found murderedA 69-year-old man was found murdered at his home at Holela Village Centane, Butterworth, Eastern Cape police said on Saturday. Captain Jackson Manatha said the man was found by a woman who went to ...
Canadastandard.com Saturday, October 31, 2009"Father" of China's space programme dies aged 98BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, widely considered the father of the country's nuclear missile and space programme, has died at the age of 98, state news agency Xinhua said on Sa...
Canadastandard.com Saturday, October 31, 2009'Project Runway' Designer Comes Full Circle to Educate About Living with HIV and Combat Stigma Associated with the Disease at United States Conference on AIDSSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Jack Mackenroth, from the hit reality television series "Project Runway," is visiting San Francisco for the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) and is bringing Living Positive By Design, his national HIV and AIDS
education initiative, to the city. On Saturday, October 31st, Jack will host a talk show session at the conference where he will engage special guests in lively discussions on important HIV topics including the stigma that still exists around the disease, goals of treatment and disease awareness in the fashion industry. The Living Positive By Design campaign seeks to combat the stigma associated with HIV by engaging people in thoughtful conversation about the disease and is supported by Merck & Co., Inc.
prnewswire.com Saturday, October 31, 2009Minneapolis Retirees Stage Pension ProtestAbout 75 retired police officers and firefighters rallied at Minneapolis City Hall on Friday to protest the city's attempts to cut their pension benefits, but they failed to engage city officials in a...
Chicago Chronicle Saturday, October 31, 2009Plenty of Vaccine Available at the Johnson County Health DepartmentOct. 31st H1N1 Vaccination Clinic
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