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6 Reasons Why You Should Never Retire 6 Reasons Why You Should Never Retire Posted: 14 Mar 2012 08:45 PM PDT The Happiest People Threats to retirement security are everywhere. The list is topped by the recession-fueled impact on retirement confidence: People haven't set aside nearly enough money to fund their retirements. Next on the list is the regular drumbeat from critics that the Social Security system is running out of money and won't be able to honor its current promises to people nearing retirement. Perhaps the third stake in the heart of retirement is that people are living longer and longer, raising legitimate fears they will outlive their money. All well and good, perhaps. But these concerns have obscured the compelling arguments against ever retiring, except for physical reasons. The short list of reasons never to retire include: 1. There is no physical reason to retire. 2. Continued work can support healthy aging, including better physical

Meditation Books Will Help You to Clean Up the Mess Which Is In Your Mind Meditation Books Will Help You to Clean Up the Mess Which Is In Your Mind Posted: 14 Mar 2012 02:37 AM PDT by The National Archives UK Article by Lily Candice Books have for long been known as the repository of knowledge. This knowledge which has been acquired over many years of study and practice by professionals and experts in their various fields of endeavor is put into easily digestible form for the seeker of knowledge to read and learn from. The same is true for meditation books: established and experienced meditation teachers have put a crystallization of their knowledge into meditation books in easy to follow format for the genuine seeker of freedom of the mind to be able to learn from their many years of study and living the art and practice of meditation. Most meditation schools have published meditation books which detail their a

Taking a More Holistic Approach to Global Health Education Taking a More Holistic Approach to Global Health Education Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:08 PM PST by Kyry Kyry Island In the early 1900s, a course of study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine might have meant traveling to a hut in Italy for several months to study the causes of malaria. Or it might have included sailing to the West Indies to help a team of researchers investigate something called filariasis, a pathogen that seemed to be spread by mosquitoes. It could even have meant heading to Africa to help combat outbreaks of bubonic plague or dysentery. "The colonial legacy gave rise to schools of tropical medicine," explained Dr. Peter Piot, who has been the director of the school since 2010. "Belgium, Germany, France, Portugal — all colonial powers had them." Such schools' main purpose, according to Dr. Piot, was to study sicknesses endemic to overseas territor