Word: 20s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lose part of your past. When you lose a spouse, you lose part of your present. But when you lose your child, you lose part of your future." Many of the more than 5,000 people killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 were adults in their 20s, 30s or 40s, with young children and proud parents...
...During production months Miyazaki occupies a corner desk at Studio Ghibli, a vine-covered cluster of buildings he designed in a Tokyo suburb for himself and a full-time staff of 150. The light-filled floors buzz quietly with jeans-clad artists in their 20s, hunched over tilted wooden desks. They far outnumber the computer-graphics specialists on a lower floor, employed only to speed up the production process...
...Browns' decision stemmed partly from personal experience. Lourdes' Cuban, Roman Catholic parents had banished Peter from their home when the two were in their 20s and living together. "I could see then the unrealistic aspect of my parents' perspective, and I never wanted to ostracize my kids in the same way," says Lourdes...
...other teams take it pretty seriously, [but for me] it’s the only thing I do all year that’s not all Harvard people or Harvard organized,” Zeitlin says. Other members of the league are mostly men in their mid-20s who played football in high school or college and want to “relive their glory days,” as Zeitlin puts it. Statistics are posted on the web at www.runandgun.50megs.com...
...immigrants became more comfortable with the language and the culture around them. They realized that unlike many of their homelands, one could express political or cultural opposition here and still be regarded as a good American. And finally, they gave birth to a generation, now in its 20s and 30s, whose primary identification is American, albeit with a "Muslim" prefix. "The feeling is," paraphrases Haddad (who is not Muslim), "'We are American. We participate in this America. We cannot live off America and not be part of it, and we have something to contribute...