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...industry's problems are partly a case of growing too big too fast. Assisted living first became popular in the late 1980s, but it wasn't until the mid-'90s--when assisted-living companies went public--that the industry exploded. Wall Street investors, eyeing the impending retirement of millions of baby boomers (the number of elderly needing long-term care is expected to double over the next 20 years, to 14 million), fell all over themselves trying to catch a piece of the boom...
Lately a hurricane of troubling publicity has swirled around Mariah Carey--the top-selling female singer of the '90s, with more than 140 million albums and singles sold. Barely a month before the release of her first starring movie, Glitter, and an accompanying CD, Carey, 31, was admitted on July 25 to a Westchester County, N.Y., hospital suffering from what her publicist, Cindi Berger, calls "an emotional and physical breakdown." The tabloids said Carey entered the hospital with her hands bandaged, as if she had attempted suicide--an account denied by the ambulance driver who took her there...
...once air temperature reaches into the 90s, your body has trouble dissipating any heat. And if the air is already full of moisture, as it is on a day with high humidity, it's hard for sweat to evaporate from your skin. With no place else for the heat to go, the temperature inside your body begins to rise dangerously...
...Economy”, with a capital N and E (not to be mistaken for any old “new” economy, mind you), was coined a few years ago to describe the world of the late 90s and early 2000—a world of near-zero inflation, ultra-low unemployment and unparalleled and seemingly unstoppable growth. It was a world changed dramatically by the rapid, almost dizzying pace of technological innovation, jump-started by the maturation of the Internet and the rise of global communications. From these initial seeds of growth and promise came a vision...
...depending on the way you look at it, this may very well have been the best and worst summer to come out West—I can safely say I’m not deluded by the irrational exuberance that had swept through the area in the late 90s, but, at the same time, I have to deal the aftermath of the storm. And it isn’t pretty...