This Active Life January 2004

A Message from the President

NEA-Retired member Joan King had just returned from a family trip when she heard the disturbing news: The Florida Retirement System was poised to sink the pension contributions of school professionals into the battered Edison private management company.
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Cover Story

Seniors need relief from escalating prescription drug prices. But the new Medicare law amounts to bad medicine.
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Letters

Readers respond to previous issues of This Active Life.
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Member Profiles

Meet Mattie Katz (Kentucky), Vince Cortese (California), and Florence Pullen (Missouri). What fuels their involvement in NEA?
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People

Texas member Jenny Marshall is on a unique quest—to journey to the spots where the elements in the Periodic Table were first discovered. For Pennsylvania’s Laurence McKeon, the courtroom is his classroom. Nevada retiree Pauline Baker takes to the airwaves with a weekly radio broadcast aimed at visually impaired listeners.
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News Briefs

Your pension fund wouldn’t risk your dollars on money-losing firms that aim to privatize education, would it? Find out how Florida retirees became unwilling purchasers of Edison Inc.
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My Contribution

New Hampshire member Warren Priest never dreamed the heights to which his mentoring would take students.
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Computers

Is your computer in-box filling up with annoying, unsolicited “spam” e-mail? We’ll give you tips to fight back
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