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The Golden Age; The number of old people in the world is soaring. Soon they will change everything from politics to tax structures to the width of doorways.(Cover Story)

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Byline: Ginanne Brownell and Carla Power (With Kathryn Williams in New York, Sarah Schafer in Beijing, Stefan Theil in Berlin, Karen Macgregor in Durban, Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi, Jenny Barchfield in Paris, Cristiana Fabiani and Edward Pentin in Rome, Katka Krosnar in Prague, Joanna Kowalska in Warsaw and Frank Brown in Moscow)

Time was, old people knew their place. Scepters were passed to sons and daughters, crowns placed on younger heads. The elderly would watch human follies from their rockers, grandchildren gamboling at their feet. Not any more. The elderly are no longer a sidelined sliver of society, but its mainstream. During the next two generations, the ...

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