Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ronald Reagan was around longer than some of my friends' fathers," says Rachel Stevens, 21, a graduate of the University of Michigan. An estimated 40% of people in their 20s are children of divorce. Even more were latchkey kids, the first to experience the downside of the two-income family. This may explain why the only solid commitment they are willing to make is to their own children -- someday. The group wants to spend more time with their kids, not because they think they can handle the balance of work and child rearing any better than their parents but because...
...younger drop out of high school. Children born of teenagers are much more likely to grow up in poverty and be undereducated and poorly housed. Children born of teenage mothers are twice as likely to die in infancy as are those born of women in their 20s, and they are much more likely to be raised in resentment and rage...
...McCloy scholarship, modeled after theprestigious Rhodes Scholarship, is awarded tofewer than ten of the approximately 100 Germanstudents who apply. Most of the scholars are intheir late 20s and enter the program with theAmerican equivalent of some post-graduateeducation...
Most gang members are in their late teens and early 20s, but kids as young as ten or eleven readily join. They are called "wanna-bes" and are looked on even by the cops as apprentices in the trade. Yet it doesn't take much for a wanna-be to earn full stripes. According to Henry, 13, a Grape Street Crip, the only difference between "little gangsters" and "big gangsters" is firepower: little gangsters use .22s or .25s; big gangsters, .38s or Uzis...
...dark, obsessive, partly despicable and wholly compelling protagonist; a strong supporting cast (Damon Runyon, Ernest Hemingway, Hedy Lamarr); a marvelous milieu (vaudeville in the '20s, New York City cafe society in the '30s, radio in the '40s, television in the '50s); a plot that comes in Gatling-gun bursts; and a resonance that is part parable of American success and part caution. Walter Winchell would make a great movie...