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By Marilynne Rudick Last month I spent two weeks at the National Rehabilitation Hospital recovering from a hip fracture. I was grateful for all the cards, calls, food and flowers from friends. But sometimes keeping friends updated on my progress was draining. I found myself repeating the same information to each caller. And the phone [...]

By Marilynne Rudick Have you always wanted to study classical music, Renaissance art or game theory? Do you wish you’d gone to Harvard? Now you can study just about anything at Harvard, MIT, Oxford, or your choice of institutions worldwide. Best of all, the courses are online, so you can learn whenever you want. Thousands [...]

By Marilynne Rudick Over50s seem to worry a lot about privacy breaches on Facebook. But the an announcement from EpsilonData Management that its email system was hacked makes me wonder if I should worry more about the safety of email and less about Facebook. Epsilon’s breach means spammers and con artists may have access to [...]