DATE: Wednesday, March 5, 1997              TAG: 9703050036

SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E1   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY ELLEN GRAHAM, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 

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GENERATION Y IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM AS GENERATION X MERGES INTO THE ADULT Y IS BEGINNING TO APPEAR ON THE SCENE. WHAT EFFECT WILL THIS NEW TIDAL WAVE OF TEEN-AGERS HAVE ON EDUCATION, JOBS, HEALTH AND CRIME? THE ANSWERS MAKE FOR A TROUBLING PORTRAIT.

COLLEGE DORMS will burst at the seams. The apparel and music businesses could awake from their slumbers. Auto accidents - and insurance rates - will likely climb. So could violent crime.

Brace for it: a teen-age ``youthquake'' of proportions not seen since the baby boomers donned love beads. The members of Generation Y, now in grade school, will hit their teen years just as the next century dawns. The teen-age population, already rising, will reach 30 million by 2006, the highest level since 1975. For complete text of this wire story, see microfilm ILLUSTRATION: Color illustration by Sam Hundley/The Virginian-Pilot KEYWORDS: GENERATION Y

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