We are currently in a not-so-cold phase of an ice age - The Quaternary Ice Age.
About 20 thousand years ago, during a colder phase in this ice age, sea level was up to 130 metres lower than at present.
In my professional career I encouraged people to go into retirement with a positive attitude and to think of this phase of life as the Third Age.
The ice that preserved his mummified corpse lay unmelted, 3, 250 metres above sea level, for more than 5, 000 years - since the world was in its warmest phase following the most recent ice age.
The key to any attempt to raise the eligibility age, Social Security experts agree, is to phase in any change slowly, giving workers who are now in late or mid-career time to adjust their retirement plans.
The talks are about the detail of pension reform - whether to increase contributions or decrease benefits, whether to move to average instead of final salary pensions, how to phase in a move to a later retirement age etc.
The first phase of results shows a breakdown of population by age, sex and nationality.
Many eye-vitamin formulations currently on the market are based on research conducted by the National Institutes of Health in a project called Age-Related Eye Disease Study, or AREDS. The first phase of the clinical trial, completed in 2001, found that a specific combination of vitamins C and E, along with beta-carotene and zinc, reduced the risk of age-related macular degeneration by as much as 25%.
"Many employers simply see the stereotypes of an older worker, particularly in the recruitment phase and statistics show older workers find it harder to find another job than any other age group, " he said.
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