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Campus life. Exams. Papers. Test anxiety. Sounds like the perfect retirement

Leon Kaplan is getting tense. With a deadline fast approaching, he is madly trying to buff up his term paper on John Updike's Rabbit at Rest. The pressure isn't entirely new to Kaplan--he's taken plenty of exams before and passed in many papers--but it's been about six decades since he was a bright-eyed Yale undergraduate in the class of 1940.

Now Kaplan, 86, is one of 210 student

Retirees living and learning at Lasell Village in Newton, Mass. he and his wife Harriet, 84, moved in shortly after the $40 million retirement community opened in may 2000 on the campus of...

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