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• Why Going Back To Law School May Be A Bad Idea

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Lifelong Education, Middle Age, Feature

  of new law school graduates age 36+ who go into private practice join large firms -- those with more than 250 attorneys. 53% either practice on their own or in a firm with less than ten attorneys. Older lawyers who go into private practice are a minority. Another recent NALP survey found that only 39% - 44% of older graduates entered private

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• Mayo Clinic asks if male menopause (aka "andropause") is real?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Health Diet Exercise, Aging, Health, Men, Menopause, Middle Age, Research, Feature

  Is "male menopause" real? Absolutely says the Mayo Clinic but the term is somewhat misleading because it is quite unlike the more dramatic female counterpart. In men, the hormone changes occur gradually, over a period of many years and the effects are subtle--often not noticed until later in life. For this reason, many prefer the term

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• Mayo Clinic Asks: Is Male Menopause (aka "Andropause") Real?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Health Diet Exercise, Aging, Health, Men, Menopause, Middle Age, Research, Feature

  Is "male menopause" real? Absolutely says the Mayo Clinic but the term is somewhat misleading because it is quite unlike the more dramatic female counterpart. In men, the hormone changes occur gradually, over a period of many years and the effects are subtle--often not noticed until later in life. For this reason, many prefer the term

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• Why Going Back To Law School May Be A Bad Idea

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Lifelong Education, Middle Age, Feature

  of new law school graduates age 36+ who go into private practice join large firms -- those with more than 250 attorneys. 53% either practice on their own or in a firm with less than ten attorneys. Older lawyers who go into private practice are a minority. Another recent NALP survey found that only 39% - 44% of older graduates entered private

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• This Summer's Midlife Crisis Books

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Book Review Tip

  and driving carpools. At age 43, things have gone exactly as planned. With a solid marriage, two great kids, an..." Paperback: 320 pagesCompany: Three Rivers Press (2007-04-24) (2007-04-24)ISBN: 1400082242List Price: $13.95Amazon Price: $3.40 101 Things I Learned AFTER My Divorce Amazon says: "Everyone knows that U.S. marriages have a

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• How Buying Tomato Soup Is Like A Midlife Crisis

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Marriage, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Research, Feature

  behavior ... but marriage, career, and other aspects of life's path are in some sense also a matter of weighing one's choices. And people don't always make the best decisions: "... consumers overestimate how green the grass is on the other side of the fence, leading them to abandon their chosen store for an often objectively inferior

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• Do You Agree With Our Midlife Crisis Movie List?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:42 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Midlife Observed, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Feature

  many issues, among them the middle-age crisis facing the dual Kaufman characters played by Nicolas Cage." I only remember my brain hurting while watching it, so I'll have to take Kirkland's word for it. The Decline of the American Empire / Barbarian Invasions -- I haven't seen these. Kirkland writes that they "plumb so deep into

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• "Over the Hill and Between the Sheets" Talks About Middle Aged Sex -- And Much More

  Published: August 16, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Midlife Observed, Dating, Divorce, Marriage, Middle Age, Feature, Book Review Tip

  in middle age was once treated like an embarrassing disease -- the less said about it, the better. No longer."Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age," a new collection of essays, midlife sex is brought out into the open, and shown to be more complicated and more interesting than the oh-so-simple coupling of

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• Not So Happy? You Must Be Middle-Aged.

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Briefly Noted

  the ten years starting at age 35. Women are least happy between 25-34, and see wellbeing increase thereafter. source: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Headlines about the survey focus on "unhappiness." The BBC headlines its story "Middle Age Most Miserable for Men," and the Guardian's subhead is "A survey has found

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• Not So Happy? You Must Be Middle-Aged.

  Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Briefly Noted

  the ten years starting at age 35. Women are least happy between 25-34, and see wellbeing increase thereafter. source: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Headlines about the survey focus on "unhappiness." The BBC headlines its story "Middle Age Most Miserable for Men," and the Guardian's subhead is "A survey has found that

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• "Over the Hill and Between the Sheets" Talks About Middle Aged Sex -- And Much More

  Published: August 16, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Midlife Observed, Dating, Divorce, Marriage, Middle Age, Feature, Book Review Tip

  in middle age was once treated like an embarrassing disease -- the less said about it, the better. No longer."Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age," a new collection of essays, midlife sex is brought out into the open, and shown to be more complicated and more interesting than the oh-so-simple coupling of

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• Predicting quality of life for older adults

  Published: August 23, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Living Life To The Fullest, Aging, Happiness, Health, Middle Age, Research, Retirement, Seniors, Briefly Noted

  to look at someone in middle age and predict the quality of life they will have in older age? According to researchers at two Canadian universities you can and the process they use gives insight into what middle age adults should be doing today to maximize their future quality of life. This latest study is a "replication" study to

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• Midlife loneliness is a killer; Speeds up aging

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:28 pm

  Tags: Health Diet Exercise, Relationships, Aging, Depression, Happiness, Longevity, Middle Age, Research, Feature

  However when it happens in middle age it can take a very bad toll on one's health. In the August issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, two University of Chicago psychologists report their findings that loneliness leads to very negative physiological affects on middle age bodies. Among the observations of Louise Hawkley and John

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• No Satisfaction, Please -- We're British

  Published: August 30, 2007, 7:22 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Living Life To The Fullest, Aging, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Research, Feature

  -- under 10% -- of the middle aged do seem to have psychological crises brought on by their advancing age. However, most of these people also had similar crises at other stressful times in their lives. The remainder of the middle aged may experience significant life crises -- divorce, death of a family member, stalled career -- or may

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• Midlife Crisis: It's Not a Psychological Issue, It's a Key Segment of the Economy

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:47 pm

  Tags: Midlife Crisis, Money, Humor, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Briefly Noted

  unbelievable $1,400 average spent on Viagra and sex aids. It's unclear whether Ciao actually asked whether those surveyed felt they were going through a midlife crisis, or if they simply extrapolated all vacation spending by middle aged men. Keeping our tongue firmly in cheek, our post "Middle Age By The Numbers" adds a few more items to

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