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...care, a 280% growth in the number of nursing-home residents. Between now and the year 2000, a new 220-bed nursing home will have to be opened every day just to keep even with demand. Without a change in the present system, pension and health-care costs will account for more than 60% of the federal budget...
Depression, often mistaken for senility, or dementia, is by far the single most ignored disorder among the elderly. About 15% of older people suffer from the condition, double the figure for the general population; the elderly have the highest suicide rate of any age group. Drugs account for some of the high incidence of depression. But the old are also more vulnerable because they have suffered more major stresses, including the deaths of spouses or friends, living alone, retirement from a job, serious illness. The classic symptoms of depression -- guilt, hopelessness, sleeplessness, lack of appetite, and suicidal thoughts -- are more...
TAKING this all into account, Lucille Ball may not be such an untimely choice for Woman of the Year. The sitcom--the style that I Love Lucy virtually invented--is predominant in the '80's. So are reruns. And through rebroadcasts of her three hit series, 'round the clock, 'round the world and at half past midnight in Boston, Ball probably will be seen by more people this year than any of today's hottest stars. This year and any other year the TV shows are broadcast the way they are now, Lucille Ball is well-deserving of the honor...
Ruder chose his moment well. A day earlier, the SEC released a 900-page investigation of October's crash that provided the most detailed account yet of how trading in stock-index futures turned what might have been just a bad day on Wall Street into a debacle of historic proportions. The SEC identified at least three critical moments on Black Monday when futures-related program trading accounted for more than 60% of the volume on the Big Board, as traders caught with plummeting futures contracts rushed to sell the underlying stocks. At the height of the crash...
...Spanish armada in 1588 or Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 seem instead to be foregone conclusions, the visible death throes of nations that had previously mismanaged or squandered their resources. Kennedy does not subscribe to the "Great Man" theory of history. He acknowledges that his account of the Napoleonic wars tends "to downplay the more personal aspects of this story, such as Napoleon's own increasing lethargy and self-delusion." But the author insists that inspiring < leaders or brilliant generals can at best cause momentary glitches in the relentless "dynamic of world power," which entails constant change both...