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Worse, demographics ensure that the hypertensive population is only going to grow. As the bow wave of the baby-boom generation prepares to hit 60, more than 77 million of us will begin entering our golden--and most pressure-prone--years. Following the boomers will be their kids and grandkids, with up to 3% of the juvenile population thought to be hypertensive. "More than 25% of children with high blood pressure may already have some cardiac thickening," says Dr. Bonita Falkner, a professor of medicine and pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia...
...loose with its balance sheet. Starting in 1992, the group began buying up dairy and other companies in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Hungary and the U.S. "It was a reversal of logic," says Vito Zincani, the chief investigating magistrate in Parma. Usually, companies take on debt in order to grow. But in Parmalat's case, "they had to grow to hide the debt," Zincani says...
...membership from five to 11 nations and increase the number elected to rotating terms from 10 to 13. The second proposal would create a middle tier of eight members elected to renewable four-year terms, and add a new two-year term. Under both proposals, the Security Council would grow from 15 to 24 seats. But neither idea grants the new members the right to veto resolutions--or the influence that it bestows. Such power would rest only with the original five...
...bust, other parts of the state's economy are booming, including tourism, hotels and construction. The number of housing permits issued rose 4.4% from January to October. The defense industry, which lost 150,000 jobs with the end of the cold war in the early 1990s, has begun to grow again as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the past four years, defense investment in California has increased 44%, and last year the state got $30 billion in military contracts, much of it in high-tech areas in which the state has a long-established lead...
...that new economic energy is not likely to solve California's fiscal crisis. Says analyst Hill: "It is very unlikely the state could grow its way out" of debt. She suggests that all options, including spending cuts and tax increases, be considered. Schwarzenegger has repeatedly said he won't hike taxes but has been unable to get Democrats to agree on new spending cuts. And he has not been the cost slasher he promised to be. For example, after vowing to take back $300 million in pay and benefits promised to the prison guards, Schwarzenegger was bargained down...