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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...want a glimpse of the boomer future that you'll never see in the ads for Brighton Gardens or MapleRidge (knowingly ironic boomer question: Where do they come up with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks...
Thus casual Friday may not be our final legacy after all. Instead, we may create a gerontocracy of such unity and might that it will either utterly dominate the American political map or provoke all-out generational warfare. In a nation in which only 66 million vote in off-year congressional elections, a bloc of some 80 million people motivated by their desperate self-interest will become dauntingly powerful...
Would a Fang Examiner be anything like a serious rival to the Chronicle? Fang admits he would cut publication of the paper in the Bay Area outside San Francisco--and give the city a local community paper instead. "You can't be all things to all people," he says. "Hearst's challenge is to create a world-class Chronicle. My challenge is to build an Examiner that's going to be unabashedly San Franciscan." But publishing daily is a costly enterprise. Experts believe it will take around $50 million a year to turn the Examiner into a morning publication...
...fast, Lisa. Instead of paying her to stay home, welfare officials encouraged her to keep her low-paying job and offered to pay all but $25 of her monthly day-care bill. That was in 1994, and today it's clear that Minnesota's investment in Halverson paid off. She got off the dole after a year, and now earns a $45,000 salary as a manager at a regional telephone company. She has never married, but Halverson, 29, says she would like to change that...
...Instead, Sit '99-'00 says that when she returned from a year abroad in London, her blockmates had graduated and the House just wasn't the same...