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...sleep patterns and sparks fatigue. Surgery corrected his condition, and the 6-foot-4, 335 pound Jenkins has been awake ever since, making two straight All-Pro teams. Several NFL general managers have named him the best lineman in the game, and ex-Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and CBS commentator Boomer Esiason simply calls Jenkins a ?freak.? Some peers go even further. ?Kris Jenkins is the dominant force in football,? says fellow Panther tackle Brentson Buckner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Panthers: Kris Jenkins Wakes Up | 1/30/2004 | See Source »

Alternately ignored and derided by critics, Jahncke says his campaign is an opportunity to tap into the activism he felt so strongly about as a student—to connect the activists of today at Harvard and beyond with their baby-boomer predecessors...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who Says You Can't Run for Vice President? | 1/23/2004 | See Source »

...tour leader arranged for the couple to receive the honeymoon suite in a lovely beachside inn just steps from the crystal-clear water--at no extra charge. Both see themselves biking off into their golden years together or, as Margo says laughingly, at least as long as their boomer bodies hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easy Rider | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...With boomers having babies later and Gen Xers having them sooner, the market could be enormous. There are 44 million tweens and teens, ages 8 to 18, in the U.S. today--a historic peak surpassing even the baby-boomer generation. Teens alone have a whopping $170 billion to spend annually, thanks to allowances, gifts, odd jobs and part-time employment, according to Michael Wood, vice president of Illinois-based Teen Research Unlimited. "Parents are the No. 1 source of their money, but it's the kids who are choosing what to buy," says Wood. What they mainly buy, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tween Eye for Design | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...terribly strange to be 61 ... and on only your first post--cold war reunion tour. Mellowed folk rockers PAUL SIMON and ART GARFUNKEL, whose chilly friendship had kept them from riding the baby-boomer nostalgia wave to its lucrative peak, told a news conference last week that they would finally reunite for a 36-city concert tour starting next month in Michigan. After more than two decades of on-and-off estrangement, the pair was inspired to launch Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour after reconciling for a warmly received performance of Sound of Silence at the Grammys last February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 2003 | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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