Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, Baby Boomers can be found quietly agitating for change in small, direct ways. "They are on the local school boards, the neighborhood committees, the grass-roots movements," says Atwater. A striking example of grass-roots success is Mothers Against Drunk Driving, founded by Candy Lightner, 40, after her teenage daughter was killed by an intoxicated motorist in 1980. MADD is largely responsible for toughening the drunken-driving laws and raising the drinking age in 38 states. Arlene Joye, 35, took a $15,000 pay cut when she left her job as a director of a pay-TV subscription...
...Baby Boomers are not exactly generating a new Baby Boom of their own--the total fertility rate remains a low 1.8 births per woman. But because of the sheer number of Boomers who have finally decided to procreate, parks are full of strollers again, and many neighborhood schools, darkened during the baby bust of the '70s, are once more crowded and noisy...
Rebuilding a Neighborhood...
...coincidence that Kurzweil applied his computer skills to making music. His father was a music professor who fled from Nazi Germany, came to the U.S. and married Kurzweil's mother, also a German refugee. Growing up in a working-class neighborhood in New York City, Kurzweil learned to play the keyboards of both pianos and computers and dreamed of becoming another Thomas Edison...
With the blessings of the faculty and administration--and a $1200 Medical School donation--a group of medical students formed the Urban Health Project two summers ago to send first-year students all around the Boston area to work on neighborhood health projects...