Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those craving sun can, also, expect only colder days. Meteorologists forecast that temperatures will average in the 20s over the next few months, according to Ron S. Horwood of the National Weather Service. January and February should see 40 inches of snow...
...crisis that few in the emergency room are equipped to handle. Concerned friends have just arrived with a frightened man in his 20s. He is not bleeding. Nothing's broken. Yet he cannot stop crying, and his companions are worried that he might kill himself. Is he just having a bad night, or is he likely to do himself harm? When it comes to determining an individual's desire to commit suicide, physicians rely heavily on experience and intuition. There has never been a laboratory test that doctors could order that would help them measure the risk more precisely...
Lauren writes ironically in his first editor's note that "Swing is about men and women in their 20s who have ingeniously realized their aspirations in the face of hardship." But the magazine has a great deal more to do with the leisurely diversions of the young, wealthy and idle--including Lauren and his friends who run the publication. Indeed, Swing is a product of spoiled suburban children who play at publishing and editorializing...
...literally watch them age, week by week." And die. Living on the streets and on society's margins, runaways are the most vulnerable to the pestilences that kill America's teens: alcoholism, drugs, AIDS, homicide. About 20% of new cases of AIDS are among young adults in their 20s. Given the virus' latency period, that means most were infected in their teens. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month released a report saying the annual homicide rate for men ages 15 to 19 jumped 154% from...
...members of the jury are black. Because a key element of the prosecution's case rests on complex scientific evidence related to blood, prosecutors had hoped for an educated jury; only two jurors attended college. Older, retired people are usually more willing to convict; most jurors are in their 20s and 30s. The single bright spot for prosecutors perhaps -- a critical part of their strategy -- lies in the gender breakdown. Eight jurors are women and one of those, a black woman, has worked with domestic violence victims. The panel's lone white female said her father had beaten her mother...