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...catching some educators looking the other way. School-age populations fell off 5.3%, to 44.9 million, from 1980 to 1984, as the last of the World War II baby boomers graduated. But meanwhile, the number of preschoolers surged 9%, to 17.8 million. And now the vanguard of this baby boomlet has hit first grade, where enrollments rose from a 33-year low of 2,894,000 in 1980 to 3,079,000 for 1983-84, with more coming. In the Sunbelt states, the boomlet is being compounded by massive immigration from the snow country and the Third World. Texas, which...
...Bush Boomlet ? Slate's lead story Thursday: "Dan Gross on Bush's Bogus Boom...
What's most striking about the Clark boomlet is how little his supporters really know about the candidate in whom they have invested such sudden and stratospheric hopes--a man who didn't declare himself a Democrat until a few weeks ago and who says he isn't sure whether he voted for a Democrat for President before Bill Clinton ran. "He can save this goddam nation from self-destruction," declares New York Congressman Charles Rangel, who is arranging a meeting for Clark with the Congressional Black Caucus, possibly as early as this week. But Rangel acknowledges that...
...each other in the streets more now, but still, something has changed - a new gentility does seem to have taken hold. Conspicuous consumption is so 2000, and not just because the dot-com bust means nobody has the resources to consume conspicuously anymore. Nationwide, as a mini-baby boomlet of children conceived last fall hits full stride, we're reminded that we are still hopeful for the future...
...down the little photocopied fanzine, who would walk past the sprawling chain record store with the lighted sign and go across town to the little mom-and-pop." Music fans who wonder precisely how the next big sound is going to wend its way into the hearts of the boomlet kids who are, as you read these words, snapping up copies of the bottomlessly awful new record by `N Sync, will find some answers in Azerrad's book. Somewhere out there, it makes one believe, could very well be brilliant rock bands nobody's heard of, least...