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Derrick N. Ashong '97, co-president of the Black Students Association (BSA), said he is entirely supportive of Pherinos' attempt to represent this segment of Harvard's community...
Jointly sponsored by Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies, the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism at Brandeis University and the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History in Jerusalem, the Boston segment of the conference ends today. The centennial conference will reconvene in Jerusalem, from...
That is only part of the story. The 3.8 million seniors who have celebrated their 85th birthday already constitute the fastest-growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030, this group, inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before...
Medical advances are already having a pronounced effect on the seniors' quality of life. A yearly federal survey of 20,000 people 65 and older showed a steady decrease through the 1980s in chronic disabilities of all kinds--with the most dramatic reductions in the 85-plus segment. "It is evolutionary, not revolutionary," says Kenneth Manton, a demographer at Duke University in North Carolina. Nonetheless, it is a welcome relief for the aging. "Life is a lot better now for older people than it was just 20 years ago," says Dr. Harold Karpman, a Beverly Hills, California, cardiologist...
...coverage is "plausibly live"--a phrase that rivals "preowned car" and "peacekeeping missiles" for disingenuousness. Many of the most popular activities, like gymnastics and swimming, take place during the day but are broadcast in the evening. To keep up the suspense artificially, NBC doesn't let on whether a segment is live or Memorex--and Tom Brokaw warns viewers to turn down the volume of the Nightly News lest they inadvertently hear the day's results...