• Hyper-information and social networking is just another set of challenges drawing on an age-hold leadership skill set, which includes knowing how to effectively communicate and persuade and inspire, no matter what the media conditions.

    FORBES: Leading the Future, Then and Now

  • It helps, of course, that there's so much nostalgia out there for the show, a whimsical coming-of-age story set in medieval times that opened in 1972 and ran for five years.

    NPR: 'Pippin' Is Back, And Surrounded By Broadway Buzz

  • The fight over a precious piece of turf in the Digital Age -- the top of an American tv set -- is about to get a lot rougher.

    FORBES: Boxed in?

  • It projects that almost 64% of households age 50-59 in 2007, would be set for retirement at age 70, compared to just 52% of those households if they retired at age 65.

    FORBES: New Study: Working Until Age 70 Isn't Enough

  • We toured nearby Nairn, a fishing port ruled for centuries by the Roses, then drove through fields to the Bronze-Age Clava Cairns, two bus-size circles of stones set within an eerily silent grove.

    WSJ: A Custom Ancestry Tour in Scotland

  • Among the biggest losers are so-called age-based portfolios, which automatically set big equity allocations in early years, changing toward fixed income as the child approaches college.

    FORBES: Bloom's Off The 529 Rose

  • The following year, he broke the world record for the event, becoming -- at age 15 years and 9 months -- the youngest male ever to set a swimming world record.

    CNN: Phelps wins historic eighth gold medal

  • But Labour's John Denham spoke out against the announced changes to age-related tax allowances, which are set to be frozen and then axed from April 2013, affecting some 4.4m people.

    BBC: MPs respond to Osborne's 2012 Budget statement

  • Lord Storey said under-age children found it easy to set up and operate accounts without parental permission and asked ministers to meet relevant bodies to discuss the problem and to put in place further safeguards.

    BBC: Peers urge online bullying clampdown

  • The old woods, irons and putters that Ellis began gathering up in 1974 for as little as a dollar apiece have the traits that go a long way toward making a set valuable--age, maker, the degree of innovation different pieces represent, rarity and condition.

    FORBES: Super-Pricey Golf Gear

  • It combines a love story with a blow for racial justice on the set of a teen-age television dance show.

    NPR: '60s Singer Darlene Love Takes on 'Hairspray'

  • An age cap on accessing taxpayer-funded loans to set up a business should be removed, says the prime minister's enterprise adviser, Lord Young.

    BBC: Lord Young proposes removing start-up loans age cap

  • It is not easy to come into the England set-up at that age but Steve made me feel welcome and he put me on the map.

    BBC: Micah Richards column

  • Once a solid layer has formed at the top of the cauldron, the curds are cut then separated from the whey, pressed into a large mould and set to age in a high-humidity cellar.

    BBC: Tracing fondue��s mysterious origins

  • Still worse, out of the gate a show about the under-30 set drew viewers with a median age of 51.

    FORBES: ABC Pulls The Plug On 'My Generation'

  • Most defined-benefit schemes have either a set retirement age or a mandatory number of contribution years before a full pension can be drawn.

    ECONOMIST: All hands on deck

  • The ruling accused the Obama administration in no uncertain terms of letting the president's pending re-election cloud its judgment when it set the age limits in 2011.

    WSJ: Obama faces choice on morning-after pill limits

  • As Blairite ministers acknowledge, raising the state-pension age had been taboo even though it was originally set at 65 in 1925, when pensioner life expectancy was much lower.

    ECONOMIST: Reforming pensions

  • And the only reason that I am standing up here today is that back when I was your age, I made a set of choices with my life -- do you hear me -- choices.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • That figure already represents 13% of the Jewish male age group (Arab-Israelis are also exempt from the draft) and is set to grow fast: among Jewish schoolchildren, 26% of first-graders are haredi.

    ECONOMIST: Israel is moving towards a more pluralistic Judaism

  • Jack was now maxing out his 401K contributions, and even took advantage of the additional amount he could set aside when he turned fifty, but retiring at age fifty-five now seemed out of the question.

    FORBES: The Case of the Disappearing Pension

  • This is a story of class warfare set amid semi-rural poverty, heroin addiction, and teen-age perplexity and sexuality.

    NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

  • As a result, nine-tenths of companies with more than 30 employees today set a mandatory retirement age, usually 60, the legal minimum.

    ECONOMIST: Greying Japan

  • If truth be told, today is Japan's golden age, despite being still mired in post-bubble detritus, plagued by political ineptitude and set more than ever in concrete.

    ECONOMIST: Japan observed

  • It's set in Wiltshire, but the officious council bureaucracy, the under-age drinking and drug culture, the emasculated local festivals, corporate pubs and the smashed-up families can be found pretty much everywhere.

    BBC: News

  • Typically, Pirate games are fairly well-grounded: they are almost universally set in the Caribbean during the Age of Sail, and they try to maintain a certain amount of realism (except for the occasional skeleton, zombie or a ghost ship).

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • More than 100 Catholic cardinals gathered in Rome on Monday morning for the first of two meetings where they could set a date for the next conclave -- when all cardinals under age 80 meet at the Vatican to vote for the next pope.

    CNN: Cardinals meet Monday; could set date to elect new pope

  • This recession-age fable, which revolves around love, work, family pressures, and hidebound traditions, is set in contemporary Lisbon but breathes the air of a dreamy, timeless romanticism one that befits the long view of life taken by its hundred-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira.

    NEWYORKER: Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl

  • "That's what started it all, " said Ms. Aronin, who attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and was all set, at age 18, to accept an apprenticeship at the Falmouth Playhouse, a summer-stock theater, only to be confronted by a scene that was way too gritty: A drunk roommate.

    WSJ: Life in the Background | By Joanne L. Kaufman

  • The 4, 000-year-old remains of the Bronze Age grave or cist, which were found in a peat bog, are set to rewrite the history books.

    BBC: 'Amazing' bronze age burial site treasures on Dartmoor

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