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Selling to the over-35 group is less complicated than selling to fickle teens, but boomers are hard to categorize. The generation is unwieldy, comprising two distinct groups--the leading-edge boomers, who are older, and the younger, 40-something group, who are closer to Gen-Xers in taste. Those women lead multifaceted lives; they include career women, stay-at-home moms and retirees. They want trendy jeans, elastic waistbands and clothes that are both casual and career oriented. At their age, they don't want to show too much skin; they want to be fashionable without looking ridiculous...
...person consumed with the need to achieve, there's someone content to accept whatever life brings. For everyone who chooses the 80-hour workweek, there's someone punching out at 5. Men and women--so it's said--express ambition differently; so do Americans and Europeans, baby boomers and Gen Xers, the middle class and the well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer and then left the company in 1985 as a 34-year-old multimillionaire. His partner, Steve Jobs, is still innovating at Apple and moonlighting...
...General Education Committee is aiming to distribute its official report to the Faculty next week, Gen Ed Committee member and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons told the Faculty Council-the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' 18-member governing body-yesterday...
...Gen Ed committee will be the last review committee to release a version of its report to the full Faculty. The forthcoming report was written over the summer by five members of the committee after the Council axed an earlier draft, saying that it lacked a guiding vision...
...According to a September version of the Gen Ed draft, obtained by The Crimson last month, the report recommends dropping the current Core Curriculum, with its 11 areas of study. The report proposes a general education system with three broad disciplinary areas—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology...