|  •Baby-Boomer Sports: The Last 50 Years
Boomers were the first to see all their athletic heroes perform live on TV. Our sports correspondent remembers some of the greatest hits of the past 50 years. |
•A Generation That Changed Music
With his generation turning 60, a critic takes a personal look back at the long, strange trip from Elvis to Eminem and beyond. Not every boomer wore tie-dye, but no generation ever took pop so seriously. Did they change music, or did music change them? |
•Music: Geezer-Pleasers
How can boomers find new bands they'll actually like? The Web has some very surprising answers. |
•Midlife: Time to Start a New Career
After pink slips and midlife crises, a generation of seekers is beginning to create Career 2.0. In doing so, they may redefine the idea of retirement. |
•Back to College for Retraining
Community colleges offer older workers an affordable way to reinvent themselves and find their place in a changing economy. |
•Baby Boomers: Is a Second Career Right for You?
Changing jobs can be one of the most stressful events in life, but it can also be an exciting opportunity to pursue one's dreams and ambitions. If you are a baby boomer, how do you know if a second career might be right for you? Take our Second-Career Test to see if a new job might be worth pursuing. |
•Starting Over
These baby boomers found new careers-some out of choice, some out of necessity. Along the way, they've redefined what success means to them. |
•Parenting: How to Let Your Kids Go
As parents, boomers face their final frontier: how to stand aside as their children become independent adults. Where's the line between caring and coddling? |
•The Boomer Files: The Long Goodbye
How does it feel to be the object of so much love and attention, so much anxiety and aspiration? Suffocating, yes, but also safe. An essay on boomer parenting, from the kids' perspective. |
•When Your Paycheck Stops
Ready to retire? Better make sure you can afford it. Here's how to make the most of what you've stashed in your piggy bank. |
•Design of the Times
Baby boomers wore their passions on their sleeves-and on their walls and everything else they touched. How a generation of style shapers left their mark. |
•Live Talk: Boomer Design
NEWSWEEK's Dorothy Kalins joined us for a Live Talk about boomer design and idealistic art on Thursday, March 16, at noon, ET. |
•Sex and the Single Baby Boomer
More middle-aged people than ever are single, and they're finding the rules have changed. STDs and Internet dates. Aging bodies and kids at home. Who knew? |
•Poker Buddies for Life
In sickness and in health, many boomers turn to their close friends, not family, to get the support they need. |
•Marriage: Act II
For the millions of baby boomers who decide to stick it out, survival depends on 'flexibility, humor and affection.' |
•Which Way Will Their Politics Go?
The baby boomers tacked left, then right. Where will their politics go in the golden years? The 'I want it all and I want it now' crowd confronts its hardest campaigns. |
•The Boomer Files
The generation that vowed to stay forever young is coming up on a major milestone. But for the 3.4 million Americans who were born in 1946, retirement is a distant prospect, and life still holds plenty of promise and surprises. They've been hippies and yuppies; and now it's the time of the 'abbies': aging baby boomers. |
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Society: 'Helicopter Parents' | Guests: William Strauss, Coauthor: Millenials Go to College; Co-founder, LifeCourse Associates |
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| | | The Boomer Files: When Paychecks Stop | Neil Collins, financial planner; Ken Scholen, director, AARP Foundation Reverse Mortgage Education Project |
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| | | The Boomer Legacy: Philosophy, Fashion & Design | Guests: Dorothy Kalins, NEWSWEEK Executive Editor; and Peter Plagens, NEWSWEEK Contributing Correspondent |
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| | | | Society: Sex and the Single Boomer | Guests: Barbara Kantrowitz, NEWSWEEK Senior Editor; Gail Sheehy, author of "Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life" (Random House, Jan. 2006) and creator of seasonedwomansnetwork.com. |
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| | | | The Baby Boom: Suddenly 60 | 11/06/05: Jerry Adler, NEWSWEEK senior editor; and Cheryl Russell, editor and director, New Strategist Publications; former editor, American Demographics magazine |
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