Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Baby Boomers Can Boogie at Resorts
Chuck Darrow
www.dailyrecord.com
Overview: “It wasn't even 10 p.m. on the night after Thanks-giving -- early by dance-club standards. But Boogie Nights already had the look -- and sound -- of a winner.”
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/ENT09/711300307/1091/ENT
Boomer Themes Add Wrinkles to Novels
Maria L. La Ganga
www.rctimes.com
Overview: “Tim Sandlin has written comic novels about 13-year-olds and sex, about a young mother who drinks too much and misplaces her baby, about a president who dies in flagrante delicto, leaving the nation in the hands of a coke-snorting veep. Then his father, Hoyt ‘Red’ Sandlin, now 83, broke his shoulder. Sandlin, now 57, found himself doing a lot of waiting at his father's bedside — for information, doctor visits, medication, meals.”
http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071129/FEATURES01/711290339/1004/MTCN0303
Boomers Seek 'Green' Death
Heather Whipps
www.livescience.com
Overview: “It seems going green is all the rage these days, including after you die. Green burial—which eschews the use of embalming chemicals and caskets that refuse to biodegrade—is on the rise across North America, say trend trackers.”
http://www.livescience.com/environment/071130-green-deaths.html