Is There Life After Fifty?

Article: The Economist, Schumpeter, Enterprising Oldies

This article, which is short and well worth reading gave me some hope.  Zuckerberg and company aside, it gives a bunch of examples and reasons why entrepreneurship and other creative endeavors are not only for the young-- not by a long shot.  For example:

• Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation found that highest rate of entrepreneurial activity was in the 55-64 age group.  Lowest was in the 20-34 age group.
• Ray Croc started McDonald's in his 50's.
• Colonel Harland Sanders started KFC in his 60's.
• The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen: still going strong.
• Arianna Huffington founded the Huffington Post at age 54.
• Marc Pincus founded Zynga at age 41.

Six Latin American Countries Without Ambassadors

Article: U.S. Sway Clipped In Latin America, Nicolas Casey, Wall Street Journal

Can you name the six Latin American countries whose ambassadorial appointments have been held up in Congress?  They are:

• Barbados
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Nicaragua
• Urugay
• Venezuela

Article also has a nice map...