CONCORD, N.H. — Owen Labrie, a senior at the St. Paul's School, made up a list of potential girls for his "senior salute" — a school ritual in which older students proposition younger ones for as much intimacy as they can get away with: a kiss, touching, or more.
It was the spring of 2014, and on the list, held up in court by prosecutors on Tuesday, one girl's name appeared in capital letters. First, prosecutors said, Mr. Labrie wooed her by email. Then, they said, using a key that was shared among students seeking privacy, he took her to a mechanical room on campus. And there, prosecutors said, he raped her.

The funeral arrangements were urgent and endless and welcome, giving my family's grief form and purpose: writing an obituary, getting a Chinese translation, working on a eulogy, visiting cemeteries, shopping for a coffin, selecting flowers and creating a program. His funeral had elements of East and West, of ancient and modern, as my father had lived his life. His pastor nephew presided over the Christian sermon. Floral arrangements of white roses, lilies and carnations, from each child and grandchild, perfumed the air. A computer slideshow flashed on two screens, accompanied by an orchestral version of "The Rose," the ballad he loved belting. The burial concluded before noon.

According to the National Institute of Health, 5 percent of the most seriously ill Americans account for more than 50 percent of health care spending, with most costs incurred in the last year of life in hospital settings. Economists call this a "cure at all cost" attitude. And in the next 25 years, longer life spans and the aging of baby boomers are expected to double the number of Americans 65 years or older, to about 72 million.
What if the most promising way to fix the system is to actually do less for the dying?

Lý Vỹ Linh, con gái cố thủ tướng Singapore Lý Quang Diệu tiết lộ ông từng yêu cầu bác sĩ sử dụng cái chết êm ái, trong những năm cuối đời chống chọi với bệnh tật và đau khổ vì người vợ đã mất.

NEW DELHI — India's Supreme Court on Monday suspended a state-level court's ban on a religious practice called santhara, a fast to the death most often undertaken by the sick and aged.
The case was initiated in 2006 by an activist who argued that the practice amounted to suicide and that relatives sometimes forced it on family members who could no longer properly give consent. Defenders of the practice, which is considered to bring honor to a family, argue that it is both distinct from suicide and essential to Jainism, which celebrates acts of radical renunciation.

BOSTON — EVERY day, 10,000 baby boomers — Americans born from 1946 to 1964 — leave the work force. Most of them have not saved enough for retirement; at least one-fifth have basically no retirement savings. Our economy has a shortage of skilled workers.
Sadly, Social Security, which was enacted 80 years ago this week, encourages older workers to leave the work force.

These ghost homes are the most visible sign of human retreat in a country where the population peaked a half-decade ago and is forecast to fall by a third over the next 50 years. The demographic pressure has weighed on the Japanese economy, as a smaller work force struggles to support a growing proportion of the old, and has prompted intense debate over long-term proposals to boost immigration or encourage women to have more children.
For now, though, after decades in which it struggled with overcrowding, Japan is confronting the opposite problem: When a society shrinks, what should be done with the buildings it no longer needs?

Việc phát triển loại hình trường phi lợi nhuận bị giậm chân tại chỗ, không loại trừ có nguyên nhân từ sự câu kết giữa các cổ đông muốn thương mại hoá giáo dục với một số ít nhà quản lý theo kiểu lợi ích nhóm.
Phi lợi nhuận tức là khi có lợi nhuận không chia cho cá nhân, mà để tăng vốn phát triển nhà trường thành sở hữu chung của cộng đồng xã hội do cộng đồng trường quản lý sử dụng, không phải sở hữu của cá nhân ai, cũng không phải của Nhà nước.
Với quan niệm không chia lợi nhuận cho cá nhân thì tất cả các trường công lập đều là phi lợi nhuận, vậy ở nước ta đã có nhiều trường phi lợi nhuận rồi, có vấn đề gì lớn ở đây phải bàn?

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Mrs. Weill, the college's most generous benefactor, has pledged a $20 million donation, one that the college president, Cathy S. Dove, says is critical to the school's future.
But the gift comes with a controversial requirement. In accepting the money, the college's board must agree to change the name to Joan Weill-Paul Smith's College.