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THE PATIENT: Where to Retire
AGE: 20 years
VITALS: Good
PROGNOSIS: Positive if patient is
willing to make changes.

Who doesn’t harbor dreams of a happy, active retirement in a (choose one): beach house/mountain retreat/golf community/island condo? Even the Magazine Medic, who truly loves his work, imagines one day trashing his toolkit and livin’ easy in a yet-to-be determined paradise.

But where? Cue Where to Retire, a magazine born on a bet that America’s aging workers were all busy fantasizing about cloudless climes elsewhere. It was a great idea.

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THE PATIENT: Success
AGE: 114 years
VITALS: Improving
PROGNOSIS: Good

The kind of high-profile success that Success’ readers desperately desire has largely eluded the magazine itself over the course of its long life. The title has encountered at least two near-death experiences, yet fought back to publish another day. On that basis alone, some may award this book a medal for its mettle.

The most recent incarnation of the magazine, which emerged from ownership’s self-induced coma in 2008, shows promise. (Its claimed, unaudited, circulation is 200,000.) It als More...