Word: 18th
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...18th birthday, in spite of the lack of festivities, was a significant occasion. At 18, I could vote, buy lottery tickets, pornography, and cigarettes, sign my own name on legally binding contracts, get my senior drivers license, and be drafted into the army. Yet, the list of things I could not legally do was still a formidable one. And, high on that list, were alcohol consumption and gambling. While most people look forward to their 21st birthday as the day they will finally be able to drink (legally), the gambling age has received little scrutiny. A search on LexisNexis...
Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, O.K., long-winded), this satire of the 18th century novel is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence. It's the late 17th century, and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, a dutiful son and a determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco plantation. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many comic perils...
...scoreboard, as it went into the second half trailing by two. The Big Red came out fast, scoring twice in the first 18 minutes. Cornell’s first goal came by way of a penalty kick after a controversial call. The Big Red Scored again in the 18th minute off a corner kick helped out by a breakdown in the Harvard defense. The Crimson hopes to stop its three-game skid today in a non-league game against Boston University. Harvard will have freshman forward John Stamatis back for that game. Stamatis scored twice in the loss Tuesday...
...star rose over the past three years. Dispatched to Auburn Hills, Mich., to sort out Chrysler, he has led a remarkable turnaround at the company, which swung back into the black in 2004 after years of heavy losses. In September Chrysler reported its 18th consecutive month of sales increases. In the U.S., Zetsche quickly wielded that favorite American management tool: the hatchet. He axed 26,000 jobs and browbeat suppliers to lower costs, but he also introduced what he called "disciplined pizazz"--a program to bring a focus on efficiency to the company's business operations without sacrificing its character...
Evidently, our President, along with the school board of Dover, Penn., does want to leave children behind—in the 18th century...