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FH Boom Daily Digest – July 8, 2010

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:10 AM PDT

Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"

Cover story: Making the 'sandwich' satisfy all
Michele Lerner
Washington Times
July 8, 2010

Overview: "Plenty of baby boomers can claim membership in the "sandwich generation," caring for elderly parents and young children at the same time. While those responsibilities can be daunting, recent reports reveal that, whether by necessity or choice, many of these baby boomers are combining those three generations into one household."
http://tinyurl.com/26z3fzu

Toyota's Avalon aging gracefully
Scott Burgess
The Detroit News
July 8, 2010

Overview: "It only takes a generation to change the world. The baby boomers, that consumer collective that defines the marketplace, reshaped the automotive world as Detroit once knew it. They lived through the Summer of Love and then turned imports into mainstream machines. They breathed life into Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and a host of other foreign carmakers, as well they should have."
http://tinyurl.com/2fx336v

A Last Conversation With Dr. Robert Butler
Joshua Tapper
New York Times
July 7, 2010

Overview: "Dr. Butler died on Sunday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, where in 1982 he had founded the first gerontology department at a United States medical school. My interview with him that day was one of his last."
http://tinyurl.com/23ycpmr

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