In Brief Focal Point is published by the Office of the President, Southern Illinois University. Bonnie Marx Illinois launches VentureTECH to better compete in the global market If you get baffled each time you try to reset the clock on the VCR, then you need to either get out of the way or get with the program for the next five years in Illinois. In short, it means creating economic growth.
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It's tough to form a good attitude about aging when the geriatric patients a doctor sees are the sickest and most infirm. Then there's the fact that most of us will spend 90 percent of our total lifetime health care dollars in the last six months of life when there are multiple medical problems occurring. Kay Werner, wife of SIUE Chancellor David Werner, will lead the effort. Once you reach 50 years of age, the invitations start coming to join the American Association of Retired People. It's a sobering thought, especially to the baby boomers, the Woodstock generation who gray into middle age thinking they are somehow charmed, somehow removed from the vicissitudes of aging.