Word: boomerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sister Cathleen calls me back from this mordant line of thinking. A boomer herself, she is a doctor in Maine. She delivered three babies on Thanksgiving Day. She attends old people all the time, watches them die and anguishes over their endgame suffering. I tell her, "The law must never be an accessory to murder." She replies, "Be careful there. Be careful. We are not talking about murder in these cases, but about compassionate care in terminal cases in which the life has already been lived and is, in fact, now over...
1950s The U.S. and the dollar reign supreme. The boomer economy fuels construction of homes, schools and highways. e bad news. mutual assured destruction...
...that reprogram muscles are essential as people grow older and lose elasticity. Brent Anderson, who teaches the technique in the Miami studio he co-owns, is working on his doctorate in physical therapy and plans to write his thesis on the effects of Pilates on the spine. His aging boomer clients who grunted their way through the no-pain-no-gain workouts of the '80s are turning to the regimen as welcome therapy. Anderson has observed, for example, that knee muscles out of whack because of a trauma experienced years earlier "can be retrained and the process of degeneration significantly...
...baby boomers now have children of hunting age; surely the approach many boomer parents take to hunting is colored by such influences long ago. The nation's culture wars--and the absence of big real wars as the theater of heroes--meanwhile have changed the balance of attitudes toward male and female virtues. Nurturer's virtues, in some circles, find it difficult to coexist with warrior's virtues--as if the nurturer now aspired to surpass the warrior in self-righteousness and sentimental hypocrisy...
...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...