At 38, he is young for the job, but he is aging fast.

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The U.S. is aging but not as fast as many other countries.

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Saint Andrews also gave new iPads and MacBooks to all 90 faculty members, upgraded its aging Windows 2000 servers to ultra-fast quad-core Apple XSERVE servers, and installed a whole new Wi-Fi infrastructure, according to Larry Tremblay, technology director at Saint Andrews.

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"This aging infrastructure needs to come out of the ground as fast as possible, " said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Wash.

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Fast forward to the Florida of today, where many aging Americans go to live out their retirement in style.

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But with an aging population and rising health care costs, we are spending too fast to sustain the program.

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In the late '80s and '90s, nobody went into petroleum engineering, so now companies must rely on a cadre of aging graybeards plus an influx of newbies who can't come onstream fast enough.

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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.

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It has the same 5 megapixel camera that's fast becoming the standard among the company's handsets, it has the Hero's now admittedly aging CPU, and it has the latest version of Sense UI that includes Friend Stream and the multitouch Leap homescreen viewer.

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