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Mostly they're older -- 59% of U.S. seniors don't go online.

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It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named chief executive of Milwaukee-based Harnischfeger, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.

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The NYSE-listed company has a presence in 59 countries and, being French, doesn't have U.S. foreign policy baggage to deal with when it negotiates contracts with their governments.

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