Woody and Buzz Lightyear were to some degree baby boomer throwbacks, and Ralph and some of his companions similarly recall the golden age of Generation X arcade play, the 1980s of Pac-Man and Centipede and Donkey Kong.
Examination of the cohort curves suggested that the increasing mortality in each age group over time was not an effect due to increased age alone, but was also affected by the ageing of generations with higher mortality rates throughout their lives.
With an increase in the prevalence of hypertension, the aging of generations with high community lead exposure and the potentially deleterious effect of hypertension on cardiovascular health, these findings may point to intervention strategies that can reduce the effects of lead on hypertension.
Among them are a baby boom, particularly among lesbian couples, which has led them to be more concerned about gaining rights and protections for their families; the gay male experience of lacking the rights of spouses when partners died of AIDS; the maturing and aging of a generation of openly gay men and lesbians, and a general rise in their expectations.
Let's hope this Age of Austerity generation of babies is the last to have its proximity to mother and father dictated by an outdated model.
The affordability of cellphones coincided with the coming of age of a generation of Japanese for whom cellphones, more than personal computers, had been an integral part of their lives since junior high school.
Major demographic trends -- the arrival of new immigrants from Latin America and Asia and the coming of age of a generation of men and women whose sense of being Catholic is often less defined than their parents' -- pose fresh and daunting challenges.
Part of a series by Amy Harmon chronicling the coming of age of a generation of autistic youths, the article, "Navigating Love and Autism," told the story of Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, a young couple with Asperger's syndrome.
With news of George Harrison's death on Thursday, Strawberry Fields, the Central Park memorial to John Lennon, yesterday became a place for hundreds of people to mourn two Beatles and the aging of a generation.
At Three Mile Island in 1979, the high hopes of a nuclear age of power generation fell flat on their face and the country turned back to conservation and oil.
