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📢 文末扫码进裙,免费领取双语精读版 Thousands of American pensioners are retiring on college campuses For universities, the boomer business is one way of responding to the enrolment cliff The Economist United States 13 June, 2024 | 736 words | ★★ ★ ★ ★ Are we alone in the universe? That’s the core question we’re trying to answer here,” Meenakshi Wadhwa, a planetary scientist with ties to nasa, tells her spellbound class. As she explains that to answer this “we need to go back to Mars to collect rocks”, one student scribbles notes while another holds up an iPhone to take a snap of the slides. In many ways this lecture hall at Arizona State University (ASU) is like any other. A group of keen women sit attentively in the front row; the men are spread out in the back. But the hearing aids hint at how unusual this class is. Mirabella, a 20-storey “university retirement community” on ASU’s campus, is home to over 300 pensioners. When it opened
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