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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Eventually we will have to explain 9/11 to a new generation, just as the greatest generation had to explain Pearl Harbor to my baby-boomer generation. What will we offer as an excuse for the mess we have created? That we envied the greatest generation's World War II glory and felt cheated that Vietnam was all we got? As it has turned out, the Iraq war isn't our World War II, nor is it another Vietnam. It is our World War I: a frivolous, costly, arrogant war that has set off an economic disaster, bred not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...such success.Did I mention that there are many examples? “Wikinomics” could very well have been renamed “The Book of Big Business Mass Collaboration Success Stories,” and marketed as a collection of bedtime tales for the money-minded Baby Boomer. But although it makes “new” business concepts sound interesting, the book quickly becomes as repetitive as Mrs. Kimball lecturing you while you were hogging the blocks during playtime. It never reaches the same level of enjoyability as other popular works of social science. After...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sharing Is Caring, Even At Fifty | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...work in an order that tells her life story, alternating with photos and short texts that knit the pieces together into a full memoir. Smart, funny and seemingly completely open about her life, Kominsky Crumb has assembled the best, most colorful and even juicy personal history of a baby boomer yet seen in this medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All You Need Is... | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

Eventually we will have to explain 9/11 to a new generation, just as the greatest generation had to explain Pearl Harbor to my baby-boomer generation. What will we offer as an excuse for the mess we have created? That we envied the greatest generation's World War II glory and felt cheated that Vietnam was all we got? As it has turned out, the Iraq war isn't our World War II, nor is it another Vietnam. It is our World War I: a frivolous, costly, arrogant war that has set off an economic disaster, bred not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 26, 2007 | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...year-old boomer who is still working. Am I really going to find people like me in a Del Webb community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO Speaks: Boomers to the Rescue? | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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