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...years, the assisted-care quarters in 20, the intensive-care units in 30. About 25% of those latter spaces are being specifically reserved for residents with cognitive disorders. Makes sense: while only 8% of people over 65 suffer from the severe memory loss that characterizes Alzheimer's disease, the number leaps to a range of 30% to 47% for those over 85, and we all know that we're going to live longer than our parents. Boomer watcher Dychtwald, in his list of 10 physical, social, spiritual, economic and political crises just ahead, puts "mass dementia...
American support for the death penalty has varied. There were 1,289 executions in the 1940s and 715 in the 1950s, and the number fell to 191 by 1976. In 1966 support for capital punishment reached an all-time low, 42%. And the Supreme Court began a series of decisions limiting the scope of the death penalty, effectively outlawing it in 1972. When the court reinstated the penalty in 1976, it mandated that certain procedures, such as separate deliberations for determining guilt and sentencing, were to be followed...
...issue of fairness in the death penalty in Texas--and under Bush--is particularly relevant because of the sheer number of people who have been executed on his watch. (Vice President Al Gore also favors the death penalty, but he has the advantage at the moment of not having to manage a death row.) The nation's largest state, California, has had eight executions since 1976. In the nation's second largest state, Bush has six scheduled this month alone. And even among Texas Governors Bush stands out: during the four years Ann Richards, Bush's predecessor, was Governor...
...Donaldson's job all the more challenging. Last week, just as he was nursing a deal to sell Aetna's financial-services and international units to Dutch firm ING Group for as much as $9 billion, Aetna was being sued for taking its sweet time paying bills to a number of New York hospitals. (Aetna says it is hopeful they can resolve the issue through negotiations.) There are also restless shareholders, who watched the stock fall nearly 60% in the past year before it recovered recently on the prospect of a good premium for its financial-services and international arms...
...another, and then another, and on and on will this cascade of calendar-enforced maturity continue for the next decade and a half, an entire generation hitting the back nine and turning the world over to those who are younger, faster, fitter, more ambitious. (Even the most commonly used number--the 76 million born in the boom--is a gross underestimate: add 8 million immigrant boomers to the total.) For the present purposes, though, we're going to focus on the leading edge of the boom, those people born between 1946 and 1957 who made it to their teens before...