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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Precious prison space must also be allocated more judiciously. Penologists say that means not only finding alternative penalties for nonviolent offenders, but offering parole to rehabilitated old-timers. Often the hotheads who enter the system while still in their teens and 20s chill out by their 30s and 40s. Life-means-life sentences do a disservice on several fronts. Taxpayers pay ever steeper costs for aging inmates, who require more medical care; wardens are stripped of the ability to motivate these prisoners; and the lifers sink into a hopelessness that can be dangerous...
...prepubescent pop by putting a teen- idol spin on a black urban beat. Eight years and 60 million albums, singles and videotapes later, the group -- Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood and Joe McIntyre -- are no longer new and no longer kids. Now in their mid-20s, they have, in show-biz terms at least, reached that other awkward age, groping for a way to reach an adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them rich and famous. So what's an old New Kid to do? Change the band's name, for one thing...
...professionalism in rock and roll was a Bad Thing? Let me try that again: in rock and roll, it's the amateurs (Whether they're kids or 40-year-olds) who are the innovators. The professionals (typically in their mid-to late 20s) take the new (or formerly-new) ideas and build, over and over again, appealing works, or songs, out of them. In this category, for example, are the Dentists, whose songs, tightly constructed out of leftover psychedelic-poptechniques and clean--lined New Wave guitar moves, have been circulating through the sunnier regions of England (if there...
...Elderly Americans who have many sex partners or are otherwise at risk to contract aids are one-sixth as likely to use condoms as a comparable group in their 20s...
Reinhart Sundheimer was a world-beating cellist until his 20s. To hear him tell it, he was betrayed by his gift for perfect intonation: "My ear began to examine each note so intensely that even a variation of a single cycle of pitch bothered me." So, at 35, Reinhart is a reclusive music teacher in Los Angeles...