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Last Updated 09:00 AM EST September 1, 2005

BOOM: Here Come the Babies

1950's

They started being born as soon as World War II was over, and they kept on coming for more than twenty years. They are the generation of Civil Rights, of fighting in and protesting Vietnam, of the British invasion, of feminism, of Woodstock. They're the Yuppies, and the parents of Gens X and Y. They're Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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