[Highlights from: Human Values in Aging UPDATE - 9 November 2002]
A GENERATIONAL LOOK AT PUBLIC POLICY
It turns out that there are some fairly startling differences between people fifty-plus and those in the 18-to-49 age group. For details look at the recent data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University Survey Project, which appeared on Oct. 20 in the Washington Post. The survey explores age-related variations in attitudes toward politics and policy, including voting behavior, views about government and social values. Click link above for the findings.

MID-LIFE ISSUES
Rabbi Zusya said: "When I reach the next world, God will not ask me, why were you not Moses? He will ask me, Why were you not Zusya?" For more on this theme, see "Rabbi Zusya's Question: Reflections of a Midlife Boomer" at the link above.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Positive Adult Development
The Society for Research in Adult Development invites papers and presentations for its annual conference in Tampa, Florida (Apr. 24-27, 2003). Deadline for applications is Nov. 25, 2002. Submissions on all aspects of positive adult development are invited, including altruistic behavior; caring for parents; consciousness studies; development of the self; futurism, and more.

"If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is inside you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
-- The Gospel of Thomas