Word: boomer
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...more than 1,000 officers through "R.U. Ready High School" in Moyock, N.C., a $45,000 facility specifically built to simulate Columbine-style carnage. A school-hostage drill in Pinellas County, Fla., last month featured 600 middle schoolers hiding inside locked-down classrooms. It was enough to make baby-boomer parents long for the good old days of duck-and-cover...
...Lord works in mysterious ways. or at least his surrogates in the TV biz do. Last week several nbc affiliates booted God, the Devil and Bob from prime time, questioning the taste of an animated sitcom that depicts God as an aging baby boomer who wears sunglasses and drinks beer (most injurious to the doctrine of divine infallibility, it's light beer...
...recent article in The Weekly Standard, David Brooks offered an explanation for McCain's odd rapport with the young. McCain is the anti-boomer, wrote Brooks: He appeals directly to the elderly ("The Greatest Generation") and to their grandchildren, but cares not so much for everyone in between. McCain favors self-sacrifice to immediate gratification, frugality to indulgence, prudence to pleasure. Self-gratifying boomers are personae non gratis...
Poor women!" sighs University of Michigan cardiologist Dr. Lori Mosca. "Every time a new study comes out, they have to revisit the decision they've made." That decision, of course, is the one that currently confronts millions of baby-boomer women just entering their menopause years: whether or not to supplement their bodies' flagging supplies of estrogen in hopes of preventing late-in-life maladies like osteoporosis and heart disease...
...answer seems to be time, information, community and horoscopes. Some of the Web's female pioneers discovered this golden formula by accident. Candice Carpenter claims she and Nancy Evans launched iVillage.com in 1996 as a gender-blind baby-boomer site focused on parenting, health and work. A year later, though women at the time accounted for fewer than 10% of all Web users, she says 75% of iVillage's traffic was female...