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...necessity, are planning to work at least part time well past 65--demographers say there still will not be enough qualified members of the next generation to pick up the slack. So with 76 million baby boomers heading toward retirement over the next three decades and only 46 million Gen Xers waiting in the wings, corporate America is facing a potentially mammoth talent crunch. Certainly, labor-saving technology and immigration may help fill the breach. Still, by 2010 there may be a shortage of 4 million to 6 million workers...
...recapture their early transcendent experiences on Ecstasy. If the words "drugs" and "travel guide" trigger sudden flashbacks of Alex Garland's backpack bible The Beach, don't get excited?this adventure pales in comparison. Not only does Aitkenhead attempt the same jaded been-there, done-that tone as the Gen X bestseller, she even names one of her chapters after Garland's novel and sets a large chunk of her story in the same Gulf of Thailand locale...
...Gen. Victor Bannykh, Secretary of State for International Cooperation of Ukraine, Gen. Victor Gaiciue, Minister of Defense of Moldova, Ambassador Armen Kirakossian from Armenia, and Gen. David Tevzadze, Minister of Defense of Georgia took part in the panel...
...crowd of twenty-five years ago. My guess is The Strokes would sooner die than hold forth with a Patti Smith-style poetry-reading-over-extended-jam-session, a jazzy, Tom Verlaine guitar solo, or one of the Ramones' ceaseless power-chord assaults, the way a nostalgia act might. Gen Y kids that they are, they're way too self-contained, insufficiently grandiose for that sort of thing. And thank God - it's that approach to the post-punk tradition that makes them original...