FOR NEW YORK'S BOOMERS AND BEYOND | Volume 2 | Issue 2 | OCTOBER, 2007

Very Short
Seniors and Lifelong Sexual Health
By ABBY TALLMER
This month's Thrive, as you already know, has the core theme of lifelong learning. Since recent scientific developments have also pushed this topic to the forefront of our nation's media (well, for at least a day or two).


Volumns Books
Vroom vroom! Driving down a long and winding road paved in hot stinking asphalt
By Nancy Weber
I love Angela Green. She has heart, she has guts, she should be given her own brick in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Wall of Tolerance.


Verbiage
Costmes
By Graham Meyer


Artigiano
Electrical Contracting

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Vent
Lifelong Learning
What's on our mind in this issue is the amazing pursuit of LIFELONG LEARNING.

Variety
Visual Griots of Mali: An Exhibition of Photography by African Youth
When 10-to-16-year-old Malians look through the lens of a camera, what do they see? A boy in an oversized Dallas Cowboys T-shirt smiles, one arm slung over a donkey's neck.


Vector Chess
Check Mate(s) Chess for a lifetime
By Suzanne Pekow
Though he has faced many conflicts in his life, the game of chess is the only one that still makes George Frohlinde’s heart race.

Vivacious Trends
Gray Matter
By Wickham Boyle
We live in a culture obsessed by beauty, epitomized by youth; this is not a startling realization. Most of my life I felt I had pretty well escaped the constraints of beauty, fashion, and fad; that was until gray hair.

Viva! Profile
Ralph Lee Patron Saint of Halloween
By JERRY TALLMER
It isn't everybody who once built a life-sized Fred Astaire for ventriloquist and puppeteer Shari Lewis to dance with. For that matter, it isn't everybody who has a large, disagreeable .

Volumns Books
Vroom vroom! Driving down a long and winding road paved in hot stinking asphalt
By Nancy Weber
I love Angela Green. She has heart, she has guts, she should be given her own brick in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Wall of Tolerance.

Value Finance
Social Security with the Emphasis on Secure
By MICHAEL BAUCH
“Most people have no idea that if they begin Social Security [as early as] age 62, they will permanently lose at least 30 percent of their lifetime benefits,” says John Durante, an independent financial adviser whose near-retirement-age clients make up a large portion of his practice.



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View Classes
Going to POTtery
By WICKHAM BOYLE
I enrolled in the pottery class only to keep a friend company.

Vigor Profile
Lee Joseph, Rebel with a Zillion Causes
By JERRY TALLMER
Her name, which started out as Amy Tuft in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 91 years ago "I was born at home!" she throws in helpfully.

Viva! Profile
Ralph Lee Patron Saint of Halloween
By JERRY TALLMER
It isn't everybody who once built a life-sized Fred Astaire for ventriloquist and puppeteer Shari Lewis to dance with. For that matter, it isn't everybody who has a large, disagreeable.

Vital Force Profile
Patricia Bransford Love and Tech
By E.J. Ruskin
Patricia Bransford has so many talents, and such generosity of spirit, that I worried it might seem as if I had conjured her. I have not; she is all too inspirationally real.

Venerate
Max Roach
By WICKHAM BOYLE
The headline and subhead said: "LEGENDARY JAZZ DRUMMER, MAX ROACH, TO BE REMEMBERED AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH, August 24, 2007. Bill Cosby, Ruby Dee, Maya Angelou, Cassandra Wilson, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and Billy Taylor Among the Notables Paying Homage to Roach"