And the entire fleet of vehicles is not aging gracefully either, with an average age of 13 years, made worse by years of tough use.
After all, in the spring of 1997, when Microsoft announced the acquisition, WebTV Networks was a two-year-old stripling of a startup with an oversized marketing budget, an aging demographic (25% over the age of 50) and a scant number of subscribers (less than 100, 000).
An analysis of data from the past three censuses shows that because of baby boomers' "aging in place, " the population of those age 45 and over grew 18 times as fast as the population under age 45 between 2000 and 2010, said William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute.
And it's timely -- we're seeing an epidemic of age-related macular degeneration with our aging population.
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And entire industries have grown up around the idea of productive aging, the third age, or all the other marketing euphemisms out there.
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"A lot of women are scared of aging so I wanted to present images of women who feel better as they age, " the 30-year-old photojournalist said.
Of its 5, 800 permanent residents, half are now over 65 years of age - making it a kind of living laboratory not just for Japan but for other countries with rapidly aging populations.
India has around 400 million young people under the age of 30 that need to have jobs, China has an aging population that needs socialized healthcare and social security.
These economies are aging and the incidents of most chronic diseases rises with age.
He said the shuttle trip -- during which he will be subjected to a battery of tests to determine the physical effects of space on a person of Glenn's age -- should help provide new insights into aging that could help people on Earth.
The Kremlin has tried to boost population growth, fearing that fewer births in an aging population will sap the economy, especially with a pension age of 55.
The variable Stock and Watson ultimately cite is the decline in labor force participation, and they argue it is driven by the aging of the workforce and the overall distribution of workers by age.
Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a culture of constant communication and change.
The White House HIV and aging meeting agenda included an epidemiological and clinical overview of older Americans (age 50 or older) by Dr. Amy Justice of Yale School of Medicine.
An interesting perspective on aging is grinding up a steep hill where lots of younger folks whose age you can plainly read on their calves are dropping like flies and walking bikes up the hill.
This is not to mention the challenge of an aging driver workforce, as Santa is rumored to be well past retirement age (1700 years old).
Apollo becomes a tall, youthful soldier with long golden hair, Arnold a lumbering warrior, having the torso of a bear and the majestic head of a lion, and Tom aging tenfold into withered old man, his true age becoming only too apparent.
"This is the first compound that has been shown to slow aging when initiated in middle age, " ways Matt Kaeberlein, a researcher at the University of Washington.
Today the agency proposed a new requirement that, if finalized, will require warnings on the use of ultraviolet light-emitting tanning beds by individuals under age 18 because of the increased risk of melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, eye damage, and premature skin aging.
Investors too busy counting the different rounds of Quantitative Easing (QE) may have missed out on a trend that is expected to have a strong impact on equity markets: the massive aging of baby boomers that began around 2005, as the first baby boomer cohort crossed the age of 60.
Investors concerned about a global economic slow-down and the approaching fiscal cliff in the US may want to take a close look at another trend that creates good investment opportunities: the massive aging of baby boomers that began around 2005, as the first baby boomer cohort crossed the age of 60.
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