Word: 20s
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Most baseball-mad kids don't end up playing in the major leagues, but Agassi's prodigious talent wouldn't quit. He started four companies in his 20s and sold one, Top Tier, to SAP for $400 million. He ran a subsidiary, SAP Portals, and developed XApps--new software designed to work with existing systems. In February SAP made Agassi the first non-German member of its board, and he replaced SAP founder Hasso Plattner in the top technologist role...
...Erich Zwettler, an anticounterfeiting investigator in Vienna. Next door in the German state of Bavaria, police also report an increase in forgeries from Lithuania, Italy and Turkey (mainly coins). Some 7,500 cases are awaiting trial in Bavaria alone. Police say that the most commonly faked euro bills - 50s, 20s, 100s and 200s, in that order - could become so widespread that vendors will refuse to accept them. Seven years ago, the U.S. Treasury was compelled to release redesigned $100 bills after an uncontrollable rise in the number of bad notes in circulation. Already, Greek kiosk owners in Thessaloniki...
...college by the age of 30. Even if they choose to give their child up for adoption, women who give birth at a young age have a higher maternal death rate and are more susceptible to obesity and hypertension as adults than those who delayed motherhood even into their 20s. For women who do have abortions, according to Planned Parenthood, “serious, long term emotional problems are rare, and less frequent than with childbirth.” And is it truly in the best interest of the child? Children of teenage parents are more likely to have health...
RICHARD: Should we talk about the love thing, in terms of ... [Grant pretends to snore.] I'm only just thinking of the argument of the film. When you're in your 20s and 30s, love is about being romantic and finding the right person. When you become a family man, you realize that it's not very democratic, the way we portray love. The idea was to say that all of these loves are equally interesting...
...schools. Contrary to what some may think, most global nomads don't adjust to moves after a week or two of sulking. Most kids, based on my own experience, will not be fine and will come to terms with their upbringing and cultural identities only in their early 20s. The value of gni is that it is run by global nomads for other global nomads. And only they can truly understand what it is like to live life on the road and grow up in countries other than one's own. Aun Koh Singapore...