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...inherit something, but I may be 70 when I get it,' " says Katherine Triolo, a financial planner in Appleton, Wisconsin. Heirs beware: the typical 65-year-old man can expect to live another 15 years, while women can bank on an additional 19. Americans 100 and over constitute the fastest- growing segment of the population. Despite rising life expectancies, older Americans are still retiring earlier, effectively burning the old estate at both ends...
...there were some surprises in the census figures. While the second fastest income growth in the city was posted in the Brattle Street area, the region which grew the fastest was the traditionally working-class neighborhood of East Cambridge...
...rapidly they are expanding. Estimates of Mexico City's population vary from 14 million to 20 million, depending on whether demographers calculate the figure according to the 1990 census (which some believe drastically undercounted), or whether the number is determined by estimates of water use. Still, the fastest urban growth is in those areas that are poorest and least prepared...
They should also have new markets to explore in Asia, where they are better positioned for expansion than their Western competitors. Japanese carmakers are already dueling in Thailand, one of the fastest-growing Asian markets, and are eagerly awaiting a rise in living standards in other countries that should launch a major auto-buying spree. Thailand's market may be only a fraction of the size of the U.S.'s, but it offers a taste of things to come in some Southeast and West Asian countries -- and someday China and India. Yasuhara Kondo's showroom may not enjoy another boom...
...advisers recognize the importance of helping Yeltsin with hard cash as well as rhetoric, but have not reached any decision on whether to back an expanded aid program or how tightly to tie payouts to reforms. The new Administration will try to thread this needle by pushing for the fastest possible delivery of aid already in the pipeline, emphasizing technical help in regions where reform is percolating fastest and raising public awareness of how much America has at stake in Russia...