1. The IPO boomlet reflects a confluence of two trends: growing interest in clean-technology stocks and demand from investors for more plays on China's economy.

2. And for that reason, this baby boomlet could end abruptly in 2008.

3. Went public after 2000, to rule out the boomlet of '98-'99 energy IPOs (when the Internet bubble's rising tide lifted all boats).

4. The latest is a boomlet in state laws requiring divestment from Iran.

5. Resident movie stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Cher and Madonna also have spurred a boomlet in the entertainment and fashion businesses.

6. Congress eliminated tax credits for solar energy, ethanol could not compete with cheap gasoline and a wind farm boomlet in California failed to catch on in the rest of the country.

7. Moreover, the nation is on the verge of a baby boomlet, when the children of the original boomers have children of their own.

8. The new numbers suggest the second year of a baby boomlet, with U. S. fertility rates higher in every racial group, the highest among Hispanic women.

9. As the tick, tick, tick of the biological clock sounded ever louder, aging baby boomers got down to the business of having a baby boomlet of their own.