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Motorola made plenty of waves when it introduced the Droid RAZR for Verizon last year, and somehow I doubt AT&T was very pleased with that move. With that one launch, Motorola instantly made AT&T’s high-end line of Android-powered Atrix smartphones look chunky and downright un-sexy in comparison Now with the Atrix HD AT&T has its own vaguely RAZR-esque device to push to the masses, but how does it stack up against its forebears? Or, better yet, how does it compare to the devices that occupy the top tiers of AT&T’s smartphone portfolio? As it turns out, the answer is “pretty damned well.” Features: 4.5-inch 720p LCD display with ColorBoostAndroid 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich with Motorola’s custom UI1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon MSM8960 processor1GB of RAM8GB of internal storage, expandable with microSD cards8MP rear camera, 1.3MP front-facing cameraRuns on AT&T’s LTE networkMSRP: $99 with two-year contract, available as of July 15 Pros: Motorola didn’t screw with Ice Cr...

Photo: Jackie Booley Jackie Booley (right) is living out a different retirement than she planned. Ask 67-year-old Jackie Booley about life after retirement, and  within minutes her story paints an all-too familiar picture of the challenges faced by today's older workers: Widowed in 2006 after 42 years of marriage, Booley retired from her 15-year career as a call center specialist at AT&T. With a healthy $120,000 in her retirement account, she decided it was time to ride out her savings and leave her desk job behind. But a year into her newfound freedom, 2008's stock market crash turned half her savings to dust. "I was taking supplements from my 401(k), plus the Social Security my husband left me, but it wasn't quite enough (to live on)," Booley said. In the end, she wound up with only one viable option––going back to the workforce she'd left less than two years before. She's certainly not alone. Eighty-six percent of workers in their 60s say they will...