Word: boom
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...Museum. 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 253-4444. Through June 18. "From Louis Sullivan to SoM: Boston Grads Go to Chicago." Through drawings and artifacts, this exhibition explores the explosive growth of the city of Chicago in the last quarter of the 19th century and the contributions to this building boom by MIT and Boston architects...
...niche. He set up a yoga school that proved to be quite successful. Even if a former student recalls that in those days "we were not followers but members," the time was ripe for gurus. Japan's galloping economic miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment. At this point he also claimed his first success...
...case, the book is now in its 46th printing and three weeks ago, passed the one-year mark on the New York Times' best-seller list. It has been translated into six languages, including Norwegian, is being developed as a movie by Warner Bros., and has sparked a tourist boom in the genteel town of Savannah. Says Susan Weiner, the city's mayor: "We are all now walking tour books...
M.I.T. Museum. 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 253-4444. Through June 18. " From Louis Sullivan to SOM: Boston Gards Go to Chicago." Through drawings and artifacts, this exhibition explores the explosive growth of the city of Chicago in the last quarter of 19th century and the contributions to this building boom by MIT and Boston architects...
...Social Security figures-the ratio of workers to pensioners--beyond recognition. In 1950 there were 16 workers paying taxes for every retiree collecting benefits. Now three workers support each pensioner. And that is before the system gets hit with a double whammy as a result of the baby boom. Beginning around 2012, and extending over more than a generation, the boomers will be retiring by the millions each year. As they leave the work force, they will be replaced by the much less numerous members of the baby-bust cohort, born between 1965 and 1975. By year 2030, there will...