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None of that has stopped an array of private companies from trying to get a piece of the new Texas road-building boom. Sometime in December, the Texas Transportation Commission, a five-member board appointed by the Governor, will award a $24 billion contract to develop proposals for the TTC's first multimodal corridor--a 600-mile stretch from Mexico to Oklahoma needed for NAFTA trucking and rail. In the running are three consortiums, one headed by the California-based Fluor Corp., another that includes Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary and a third headed by the Spanish tollway operator...
Worse, demographics ensure that the hypertensive population is only going to grow. As the bow wave of the baby-boom generation prepares to hit 60, more than 77 million of us will begin entering our golden--and most pressure-prone--years. Following the boomers will be their kids and grandkids, with up to 3% of the juvenile population thought to be hypertensive. "More than 25% of children with high blood pressure may already have some cardiac thickening," says Dr. Bonita Falkner, a professor of medicine and pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia...
...coaching boom has left football in the backfield. Pop Warner, football's Little League, has 20,000 coaches. At most, 200, or 1%, are women. And only one high school in America--George Washington in New York City--has a female head football coach. This isn't shocking, given that few girls actually grace the gridiron. Still, the National Football League (NFL) is eager to address the shortage, starting with moms like Bolds-Jackson in New Orleans...
...American culture is aging us, more of us, and more disastrously than it ever has before,” Gullette said. Significant changes have taken place over the last 30 years, accelerating during the boom of the 1990s. They include the widespread apprehension of aging past youth, job discrimination against the middle aged and elderly and equalized longevity. With regard to this last issue, Gullette pointed out that certain ethnic groups and class groups, particularly African American men and Native Americans, are more vulnerable to the effects of aging on employment...