New York (CBS)  -- AGING BABY BOOMERS FACE HEALTH CARE STRAIN

If we're lucky, we'll all live to ripe old ages.  If we're unlikely - and a new report suggests many of could be -- we may be pretty miserable in terms of our health care.

Maybe the members of the Who have read a new report from experts at the Institute of Medicine, who say many of us are headed into a health care system for seniors that isn't ready for us.

John Rowe's a professor of health policy and management at Columbia.  He headed the study, which suggests the 78 million baby boomers who are about to turn 65 could be facing rough times.

"We're going to have previously unimagined numbers of older people.  And the American health care system is in denial, and has not had adequate training, nor adequate payment, for geriatric care providers," said Rowe.

Rowe adds there are all sorts of potential problems:  there aren't enough specialists in geriatric medicine, there's not enough training available, Medicare won't be enough -- and there will just too darned many of us old folks around...

"The elderly use a disproportionate amount of care, so the current 12 percent is 35 percent of hospital bed days -- 34 percent of medicines.  So when we have 20 percent of the population elderly, their needs are going to dominate the health care system," said Rowe.

So, short of putting us aging boomers out on ice floes, what's to be done?

Some members of Congress are pushing plans to steer caregivers toward geriatric medicine and set up a special panel to come up with other ideas.  The report also suggests other family members be trained in how to help us oldsters when we need it.

THE MAN WHO GAVE "BLACK HOLES" THEIR NAME

How's this for a resume?  Coined the phrase "black hole."  Worked with geniuses, probably was one.  Played a key role in developing the atomic bomb.  Goodbye to physicist John Wheeler.

One of his colleagues says John Wheeler was the last Titan, a superhero of physics.  Wheeler has died at age 96.

He saw things and imagined things most of us never even dream of.  For example, he helped develop a weapon that was either the creation that ended the Second World War -- or which ushered in a new Dark Ages, according to your point of view.

John Wheeler was instrumental in building the atomic bomb.  Wheeler was part of the Manhattan Project, rushing to build the bomb before the Germans did. 

Some of his fellow scientists regretted their work.  Wheeler did not.  He said he was sorry America didn't have the bomb earlier, so maybe the war would have ended earlier -- and his brother Joe wouldn't have been killed in combat in 1944.

Wheeler later helped develop the even more powerful hydrogen bomb.  He also gave a name to a phenomenon that's one of the most fascinating in the universe.

Some called it a "gravitationally completely collapsed star," which was accurate but kind of ugly.  John Wheeler re-named it a "black hole."  Now, that had a ring to it.

President Bush issued a statement saying Wheeler had inspired generations of students while teaching at Princeton. Among them was one named Richard Feynman, who was something of a big brain himself.

He also worked with one of the few people who understood how important physics really is.  His name was Albert Einstein, who viewed John Wheeler as a worthy colleague.  Not a bad recommendation.

ALPHA MALES IN BOARDROOMS AND BEDROOMS

Are you an alpha male -- in the bedroom and the boardroom?

Remember Gordon Gekko from the movie "Wall Street"?: "The point is, ladies and gentlemen, is that greed, for lack of a better word, is good."

He was going after the babes and the big bucks.  Now, a new study by experts at the University of Cambridge suggests Gordon's hormones may have been raging, which is why he did what he did.

They say testosterone, which can be a factor in male aggression and sexual interest, also seems to have an effect on financial success, at least in the short term.  They studied male financial traders in London, taking saliva samples in the morning and evening.  Those with higher levels of testosterone in the morning were more likely to make an unusually big profit that day.

But remember, I said success in the short-term.  In the longer-term, the study suggests higher testosterone levels over several days can lead the alpha males to take irrational risks and maybe lose lots of money.

The researchers say if you want a more stable financial market -- one in which the action isn't swinging wildly because of all those testosterone-fueled traders out there -- hire more women and older men as traders.  Their testosterone levels are lower and so they're less likely to bet the farm on a risky investment.

So, Gordon, maybe it's time you sipped a little mint tea and watched Oprah to get more in touch with your feminine side.

MEET A COLLEGE STUDENT WHO'S BUILT HIMSELF A TANK

You have to wonder if Will Foster ever has trouble finding a parking space.  After all, the tank he drives could probably just shove other vehicles out of the way.

You know those people -- usually guys -- who always seem to be working on an old junky car they can never get running?

Will Foster, a student at Kettering University in Michigan, isn't one of them. When he starts a vehicle project, he finishes it, Which is why Will is now the proud owner of a Panzer tank.

OK, it's not a full-size Panzer tank. That would really be a project. Will has built himself a half-size tank that he uses -- not to invade European countries, thankfully, but to frighten the pants off paintball opponents.

"It's got a cartridge and it's filled with paintballs and breach-loaded, so you put it in from the back.  The air can, it's pretty much just a steel pipe, with some outer shrouds.  And then inside there, you've got a pressure chamber, so you fill it up to a high pressure, put the paintballs in, pull the trigger, and it'll use that air to shoot this out like a giant spitball gun," said Foster.

That's Will on a YouTube video, explaining how his tank fires paintballs.  Imagine having your own tank, driving around town.

"All you need is a slow moving vehicle sign, apparently, and it's technically a tractor.  You put the orange triangle on there, and you can drive it on the road," said Foster.

Just like one of those Amish buggies!  Except this is a tank!

"The cops showed up, you know, and they see me rolling down the street in this, and he just laughed. He said, 'You know, I've been a cop for 30 years and I thought I'd seen it all.'  And then told me to bring it home," said Foster.

You gotta wonder what's next for Will Foster.  Building a half-size aircraft carrier?  That would ensure his victory at every single paintball game for eternity!