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A look at how people in retirement are making use of college classes. In his recent application to be a student speaker at Western Governors University’s commencement, David Lavers worked hard to showcase himself, and he used age as a selling point: “At 71, I am typically older than my cohorts and most of my instructors.” Lavers is part of a small-but-mighty group of retirees and near-retirees who believe that higher education — like youth — is wasted on the young. Each member of this cohort com

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Rising to meet the tide Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Christina Laughlin usually does whatever she can to avoid the flooding that plagues her neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay. But on a blustery Sunday morning in October 2019, she donned a windbreaker and rain boots, grabbed her battered smartphone, and deliberately headed straight to the high-water line. Like her, hundreds of other locals were out and about that day, busy taking photos of the water and linking them to GPS markers during the year's highest astronomical tide, know...