Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Boomers: Older and Maybe, Finally Wiser
Kurt Andersen
Time Magazine
August. 5, 2009
Overview: With the current economic crisis and the necessary reshaping of America, the boomers have their last best shot at helping to straighten out the mess they helped make.
http://tinyurl.com/kldj9r
Study Shows Link Between High Cholesterol and Dementia
Rachel Stockton
Food Consumer
August 5, 2009
Overview: The newest study on aging, published in the journal Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, shows a definitive link between high cholesterol in middle age and Alzheimer's 40 years later.
http://tinyurl.com/nujrjn
Lost generation? U.S. grads work for free, look abroad
Wendell Marsh
Reuters
August 4, 2009
Overview: Economists worry that unless new graduates get on the job ladder soon, it will leave a void in a country where a wave of retiring Baby Boomers needs a healthy young work force to pay for their Social Security government retirement benefits.
http://tinyurl.com/lsxmeo