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...country? Every seven seconds an American turns 50, and the oldest baby boomers will reach 65 in four years. That generation accounts for 78 million Americans. They consume 40% of the federal budget through such programs as Social Security and Medicare. And policy experts fear that the coming wave of seniors could swamp those programs--leaving a gift of higher taxes and reduced benefits for their kids. "The crisis is coming--we know that," says Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP...
...annihilate. The repressed just keeps on returning--in, for example, the rock 'n' roll "rebellion" of the '50s and '60s and what I call the "carnivalization" of sports events in the '80s and '90s, when fans began dressing in team colors and costumes, and performing dancelike activities like the "wave." Then there are all the festivities that have emerged spontaneously: the Burning Man Festival, the Berlin Love Parade and Halloween as an occasion for grownup revelry. We seem to be impelled, almost instinctively and even in the absence of surviving traditions, to create occasions for communal...
Maybe it's the unmistakably Italian sensibility of its fashions, or maybe it's those paisley patterns the company is so famous for. Whatever the appeal, Etro is enjoying a fresh wave of popularity this season. For its fall/winter menswear show, models strode down the runway, below, in confidently coordinated looks, mixing and matching colors and textures. With styles so distinctive, it's no wonder the name has achieved classic status...
...enough of midcentury modern and Mies? Finished with Finnish style? The latest wave in furniture trends might just be a bright, shiny take on rococo style: this Poldo chest of drawers from the Conran Shop is sure to enliven even the dreariest room...
...that knitting has caught on with everyone from grandmothers to movie stars, needlepoint is being proclaimed as the next wave in down-home crafts. Home retailer to the young and trendy, West Elm already stocks this needlepoint Bunched Flowers pillow cover westelm.com...