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...your pension is underfunded, your health is deteriorating, even the medical advances that will probably extend your life will, in an especially cruel paradox, probably mean that late life will be meaner and more spartan. You'll have a hard time selling the house that you considered your nest egg (the generation behind just won't have enough buyers). And your neighbors' children, simultaneously burdened with the cost of your aging and victimized by the one thing you'll hold onto--your political power--will boil with resentment. Your own kids may get especially peevish: even today, says Rand Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight Of The Boomers | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...kind of a chicken and egg thing," she says. "I don't know if the suburban environment is what makes people quiet, or if they're quiet when they come, but when they graduated, the House definitely changed...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Strict Rules, Students Stay Put | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

Which, ultimately, is the problem with the Green Cup, and perhaps the reason why my fellow Eliotites couldn't muster the energy to reduce their power. Some things--like Easter egg hunts, synchronized swimming and especially recycling--just shouldn't be made into competitions. No matter how well-intentioned its leaders, Green Cup wrongly assumes that the most ambitious students around will compete for damn near anything--even the honor of being the best waste-reducers in school. Even Captain Planet would have a tough time getting excited for such a competition. So, while I was dismayed at our loss...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The Green Games | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

Whisked off to an Edenic island by improbable circumstances, his abandoned egg hatches in the midst of a lemur band--grumpy papa, adoring mom, frisky siblings. His idyllic upbringing is interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bound for Extinction | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

This Dreamworks claymation film hopes to take kids to Tweedy's Chicken Farm, where any hen that doesn't make her egg quota can meet a "fowl" fate. Ginger and her fellow hens, with the help of Rocky, a Yankee rooster, hatch a plan of escape before they end up fried. This send-up of the classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, features more cool animated effects from the England-based Aardman Animations, the Academy Award-winning team behind the popular "Wallace and Gromit" shorts; Chicken Run marks their first full-length claymation feature. With Disney releasing its summer...

Author: By Arts Editors, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Movie Preview | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

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