As the baby-boomers hit retirement age, the fiscal strain will grow.

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"It seems that this year's flu vaccine is not nearly as effective as we would like among people over the age of 65 for one particular strain of flu, " Frieden said Thursday.

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Listening to Lovelock it is easy to see why his theories caught on with New Age thinkers -- there is a strain of spirituality in much of what he says.

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