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...Look for standardized preparations so you know you're getting the same product with each new bottle you buy. As any baby boomer who ever smoked more than a single joint knows, potency of herbs can vary from batch to batch. German manufacturers, though, produce identical batches of herbal remedies, as required by their law. This week the U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit organization, published the first American standards for the potency of nine herbs, including chamomile, feverfew, St. John's wort and saw palmetto. Manufacturers that adhere to those standards can add the letters NF, for national formulary, to their...
...common thread is that the members of this new boomer bulge have the financial stability to retire comfortably and interests and passion that are leading them in new directions. About one-quarter to one-half of all clients seeking the help of financial planners these days are early retirees between the ages of 50 and 55, notes Michael Chasnoff, a Cincinnati, Ohio, financial planner and chairman of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), which represents fee-only planners. And of the 20 million or so self-employed people...
...Baby boomers and Gen Xers may have taken over parenthood, but their own parents are also living longer and thus extending the family as well. By the year 2005 there will be an estimated 80 million to 90 million grandparents in the U.S. Only those codgers won't be sitting in rocking chairs, talking about the old days. Boomer grandparents are likely to be "younger, healthier, wealthier and better educated," say Kathryn and Allan Zullo, the husband-wife authors of The Nanas and the Papas: A Boomers' Guide to Grandparenting (Andrews McMeel). The Zullos give grandparents advice about keeping...
...baby boomer type of thing," she explains. "They've been through the aerobic stage, they've been through the jogging and weightlifting stages, and now they're 40. They're aging, and Pilates is perfect for osteoporosis, arthritis and building a great body. It's the long, lean look of a dancer's body that they've wanted all along...
...were derived from World War II and the Cold War," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "He shepherded the country through the complex process of reunification, and worked to protect Germany from its worst impulses by centering it in a strong European Union." Schroeder, by contrast, is a German baby-boomer, concerned less with the past and the wider European perspective than with the domestic economy. "This election marks a new generation assuming the leadership of Germany, one less shadowed by the legacy of the war," says Graff. "Enough of history, German voters seemed to say; let's have a fresh...