Forget about a youth boom -- the planet's population is getting older, fast. From the West Bank to Woodstock, a look at a world going gray.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON, ANDREW SWIFT | OCTOBER 12, 2010
The world's population is graying at rate that few foresaw -- and the implications are terrifying. And as Phillip Longman details in his article "Think Again: Global Aging," this dramatic pace is going to change the world as we know it -- politically, economically, militarily -- in ways you might not expect.