Think of the old rule of thumb to subtract your age from 100 and invest that percentage in stocks or of the modern version in the form of target date retirement funds that start aggressive and become more conservative as you get closer to retirement.

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Imaginationism, the belief that abnormal children come from mothers who indulged in perverse thoughts and general bad juju, persisted into the modern age.

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He brings an insider's wit to tracing the fate of official Christianity in an age of doubt, and to addressing modern surges of zeal, from Mormons to Pentecostals.

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In another area not far from modern Sibari, near Spezzano Albanese, the archaeologists have unearthed dwellings from the Middle Bronze Age alongside objects of Aegean origin.

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This applies to all such state provision for old age and has done so from the day that Bismark brought in the first such modern system.

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Still, while Thain is credited for bringing the NYSE into the modern electronic trading age, the exchange's market share has been slipping due to aggressive competition from electronic networks like Bats Trading, and from its more traditional rival, Nasdaq.

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And the sense it had given him, of union with nature and of the spiritual basis of all creation, convinced him that he had found a sacrament for the modern age: the antidote to the ennui caused by consumerism, industrialisation and the vanishing of the divine from human life.

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