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February 
The Lifespan of U.S. Presidents
Does the stress of the job shorten the lifespan of American presidents? A study by a University of Illinois professor has found that 23 of the 34 presidents who died of natural causes actually lived longer, on average, than men who were the same age on Inauguration Day. To definitively answer the lifespan question requires a comparison between the presidents and other men who possessed the same advantages of education, wealth, and access to health care. Another scientist suggests that presidents may benefit from being where the buck stops. The most risky kind of stress, he said, is caused by feelings of helplessness as experienced by middle managers.
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January
An Encore Career As a Builder of School Libraries
Verne Oliver retired from her teaching career in 1987. Since then the 89-year-old New Yorker has been working as associate director of a private philanthropy that supports parochial school libraries. She specializes in rescuing books from schools that are closing down, tossing out those that are too worn or out-of-date, repairing others, in order to build new school collections or rebuild old ones. In that way, she has transformed or created dozens of libraries at schools serving underprivileged children—schools that might have no adequate library without her. She has no plans to retire from her second career, Oliver says, because the need for her books is so great and there’s so much more to be done.
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