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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...
...popular history is possibly the best. Since The Civil War, PBS has aired such outstanding historical series as The Great Depression and The Promised Land, and The American Experience keeps turning out high-quality work after eight seasons. The History Channel, launched in January 1995, is one of the fastest-growing networks on cable. Burns himself is juggling several new projects, including a series of historical profiles (the first, on Thomas Jefferson, will air in February) and a 12 1/2-hour history of jazz, and he wants to set up workshops in his hometown of Walpole, New Hampshire, to help aspiring...
...safe-sex campaign aimed at prostitutes has worked. The rate of HIV INFECTION among young men in Thailand, home to one of the world's fastest-growing AIDS epidemics, is half what it was in 1991. That's when the government unleashed a media blitz and began providing condoms to brothels...
...pool at the Georgia Tech aquatic center was supposed to be the fastest in the world, but it yielded more surprises than world records (four). While teammates like Janet Evans and Amanda Beard got all the pre-Olympic hype, the charmingly gawky Van Dyken stole the show with an unprecedented four gold medals. Michelle Smith, another relative unknown from Ireland, a nation not heretofore known for its aquatics, won three races. The U.S. men's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team of Gary Hall Jr., Jon Olsen, Josh Davis and Brad Schumacher not only kept America's unbeaten streak...
...Olympics. The 23-year-old Coloradan, daughter of a software-company president, anchored two relay victories, in the 4x100-m freestyle and the 4x100-m medley, and captured two individual golds, in the 100-m butterfly and the 50-m freestyle--a win that crowns her "the world's fastest woman" in water. She also charmed a worldwide television audience with her exuberant personality. "I'm really stubborn," she reflected, recalling her treatment in high school. "If someone tells me I stink, I'm going to try to prove them wrong...