The Change Mariner: Category: Area - Social

July 8, 2004

Singapore TV Show Encourages Baby-Making

Boston.com: Baby-short Singapore was to get a glimpse of the highs and lows of pregnancy and childbirth Saturday with the premiere of a television series that follows a couple through the entire baby-making process. The show -- dubbed "Here's Looking...

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June 28, 2004

Real Estate Drive Coastal 'Brain Drain'

Yahoo! News: Soaring property values in California have made many homeowners there rich -- and many real estate agents here delighted. In an exodus that some demographers say could reshape the American landscape, young professional families are increasingly fleeing the...

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June 16, 2004

Cars: A Glut In The Ultraluxury Segment

AutoWeek.com: ...Last year, U.S. consumers purchased 16,000 vehicles priced more than $100,000, a 43 percent increase over 2002. But if one adds up sales forecasts for luxury vehicles entering the United States in the next two years, affluent Americans would...

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June 14, 2004

Blog Readers Defy Stereotypes

MediaDailyNews: Blog readers are just a bunch of kids with too many opinions, too little money, and too much time on their hands. Think again. According to a survey of blog readers conducted by Weblog ad network Blogads, they're older...

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June 6, 2004

RV Industry Grows as Boomers Hit Highways

Yahoo! News: The recreational vehicle capital of the world is in the midst of a hiring boom. In the sprawling manufacturing plants south of Interstate 80-90 in Elkhart County, the scene resembles a bustling construction site, the sound of drills...

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May 3, 2004

Eastern Europe's Immigration Challenge

International Herald Tribune: The changes are small but plain to see: the stray African face on the subway, Ukrainians who clean and build, vegetable markets run not by Czechs but by Vietnamese who offer something truly foreign here - a...

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April 30, 2004

Asian Population Surging Across America

Yahoo! News: The scents of herbs and spices waft out of a Vietnamese medicine store, down a hall and past a restaurant where diners sip tea and eat bowls of pho. Pulsing Vietnamese music plays in the background. It's a...

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April 26, 2004

Diabetes Reportedly to Double Worldwide by 2030

Yahoo! News: Diabetes rates will double worldwide by 2030, to 366 million people with the disease, even if the obesity rate remains stable, an international team of researchers reported on Monday. But the rate will go up even higher if,...

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April 25, 2004

Life Expectancy: Now Only Death Is Certain After 100

New York Times: For nearly 150 years, people who lived past 100 could claim this accomplishment: They had outlived the point at which the life insurance industry technically predicted they would die. Now the industry is raising the bar, and...

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April 11, 2004

Robots Seen As Companions for Elderly

Yahoo! News: To some scientists, robots are the answer to caring for aging societies in Japan and other nations where the young are destined to be overwhelmed by a surging elderly population. In one of a budding series of robot-therapy...

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April 8, 2004

Bay Area Cemeteries Bowing to Cultural Needs

San Jose Mercury News: In the Bay Area, where whites are no longer the majority, diversity is redefining communities for the dead as well as the living. From Richmond to Fremont to San Jose, funeral homes are building rooms where...

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April 3, 2004

The Rise of Eurabia

New York Times: To begin with, consider the extraordinary prospect of European demographic decline. A hundred years ago -- when Europe's surplus population was still crossing the oceans to populate America and Australasia -- the countries that make up today's...

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March 23, 2004

He's Retired, She's Working, They're Not Happy

New York Times: Such tensions have altered the marital dynamic of retirement, as millions of women continue working after their husbands retire. The challenges represent "a stage of the marriage relationship that's occurring for the first time in history," said...

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March 8, 2004

The Growing Influence of Hispanics in U.S.

Business Week: It amounts to no less than a shift in the nation's center of gravity. Hispanics made up half of all new workers in the past decade, a trend that will lift them from roughly 12% of the workforce...

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February 27, 2004

Baby Business Booms

Reuters: As toy retailers struggle with weak sales and aggressive price cuts, the baby segment -- which includes not just toys but strollers, car seats and cribs -- appears to be booming. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is...

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February 20, 2004

Expanding Life Expectancy in U.S.

Life in the Age of Old, Old Age In the annals of human longevity, the Blaylock sisters represent a happy aberration, an anomaly so rare that they have donated blood for the sake of genetic research. They have all sailed...

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February 16, 2004

Russia's Health Care System Is Crumbling

Wall Street Journal (registraton required): The dire state of Russia's public-health system has helped create what President Vladimir Putin calls a national emergency: Every year nearly a million more Russians die than are born. Even with surging immigration, mostly from...

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February 15, 2004

Over-50 Boomers Represent Untapped Market

Northwest Indiana News The over-50 crowd never has been a priority for most marketers. But the new wave of active, affluent baby boomers like Dickerson that's swelling the ranks of that age group is making them harder to ignore. Americans...

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February 3, 2004

Boomers Bust Budget

San Francisco Chornicle: It's not so much the gaping $521 billion federal budget deficit forecast for 2004 by the Bush administration Monday that's got economists fretting about the nation's fiscal future. Nor is it the $2.4 trillion shortfall projected by...

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January 21, 2004

Gender Selection: The Brave New World of In Vitro Fertilization

MSNBC: In the course of her Internet research, she stumbled upon a Web site for the Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles, headed by Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, where she learned about an in vitro fertilization technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis. By...

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January 7, 2004

President Says Changes to Immigration Will Help Millions

New York Times: President Bush offered a plan today that he said would help millions of illegal immigrants working in the United States while also making the country more secure and prosperous and living up to its finest ideals. "By...

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December 30, 2003

Condos More Popular As Boomers Seek City Living

Yahoo Business: Until last September, Umberto and Maria Falcone lived in what many would consider the height of San Diego living - a 3,000 square foot, four car-garage house with ocean views and enough marble counter tops to handle cookie-making...

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December 20, 2003

U.S. Population Nears 300 Million, Pushed by Growth in South & West

San Francisco Chronicle: The U.S. population grew by 2.8 million in the past year and is edging toward 300 million, a threshold that should be reached within four years. The South and West added the most people in the year...

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November 26, 2003

Immigration Into U.S. Continues to Rise

The Washington Times: Net immigration to the United States rose dramatically by 1.4 million in each of the past two years, about half a million of whom were listed as illegal aliens, a report said yesterday. The Federation for American...

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November 24, 2003

TV and Land Line Receeding into the Background of 'Tech Elite'

InternetNews.com: ... The October 2002 survey of nearly 1,700 Americans focused on personal technologies, revealing that a greater proportion of enthusiastic tech users would find it more difficult to do without their computer, cell phone, and Internet than their television...

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November 1, 2003

Japan's Graying Population

My Way News Hongo symbolized the graying of Japan's society - a trend that elicits both pride and concern. Until last month, the world's oldest documented man was also Japanese - 114-year-old Yukichi Chuganji. He died Sept. 29. Japan's life...

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October 11, 2003

CDC Study Shows Diabetes Tripling by 2050

CBN News : One out of every three people who has it doesn't know it. Seventeen million Americans suffer from diabetes, a commonly known disease that shortens life and wreaks havoc on the body. Dr. K.M. Venkat Narayan of the...

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October 5, 2003

Socioeconomics Plays Role in Obesity

Yahoo! News: A child's socioeconomic status plays a direct role in whether his genetic susceptibility to obesity is expressed or controlled, says a Medical College of Georgia study. Researchers studied the genotypes of almost 500 black and white American...

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September 30, 2003

Boom Times on the Poverty Roll

New York Times: An additional 1.7 million Americans slipped into official poverty last year, ground down by the pernicious joblessness that remains the most salient fact of the economic recovery. Job growth -- promised by Republican architects of the new...

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September 17, 2003

IT Unemployment At Record Levels

Computerworld: Unemployment for IT workers reached 6% this year, an "unprecedented" level for a profession that was once a sure path to a well-paying job, according to a new study that also found that foreign-born workers now account for a...

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September 10, 2003

Latino Roles On The Rise

SignOnSanDiego.com: As Hollywood moves to capture the burgeoning Latino market at the box office -- and the hiring of more Latino talent to work on and off-camera -- Latino actors are increasingly hiring dialect coaches. Indeed, the numbers show a...

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September 7, 2003

Islamic Foods Find Wider Audience

San Francisco Chronicle: Driven by the fast-growing Muslim population, halal foods -- often described as "kosher for Muslims'" -- are headed toward wider popularity. ... The surge has many people believing that the American halal food industry, now in its...

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The Rise of the 'Metrosexual'

KRT Wire: [Ken] DeLeon may not know it, but he is a metrosexual - one of a growing number of urban guys (make that straight urban guys) who indulge in personal niceties that used to be mainly the purview of...

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August 28, 2003

Suburbia USA: Fat of the Land?

Washington Post: Suburban sprawl appears to be contributing to the nation's obesity epidemic, making people less likely to walk and more likely to be overweight, researchers reported yesterday. ... People who live in the most spread-out areas spend fewer minutes...

Posted by Timothy Fredel at 10:22 PM | See the full story

Mixed-race families on the rise, data shows

TRIBnet: New 2000 Census data show that more than 1 in 6 adopted kids is of a different race from their parents. And according to new analysis by William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution in Washington, about 1...

Posted by Bob King at 9:18 AM | See the full story

August 19, 2003

Pain Relievers Might Cut Parkinson's Risk

Yahoo! News: Regular use of over-the-counter pain relievers might help delay or prevent Parkinson's disease, the neurological disorder that affects more than half a million Americans, research suggests. ... About 50,000 mostly middle-aged and older Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson's...

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August 13, 2003

Boston Company Seeks to Freeze Unfertilized Eggs

Reuters A Boston-based biotechnology company on Wednesday said it has moved one step closer to freezing unfertilized eggs, a procedure that may let women delay motherhood for years. ViaCell Inc. in a statement announced the potential breakthrough in reproductive medicine....

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