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...back to the village where more rebels--I counted 36--were holding five others: two women, two children and an old man. All of the rebels were carrying AK-47s, and some had rocket-propelled grenades. They were mostly about 35 or 40, but some were in their 20s. They looked untidy, as if they had been in the bush for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...function, its heft and the sound of its clang, each extracted from a different region of the brain. Fail to connect a person's name with his or her face, and you experience the breakdown of that assembly process that many of us begin to experience in our 20s--and that becomes downright worrisome when we reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Genes? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...schoolers today total more than a million nationwide, estimates Patricia Lines of the U.S. Department of Education, who says their numbers tripled between 1990 and 1995 and are still growing. Yet how good an education they get is not well documented. Now, however, as the first wave reach their 20s, a glimpse of how they might turn out, academically and socially, is beginning to take shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Home-School Report Card | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...while it's typically diagnosed between ages 30 and 35, with a second, smaller peak in men over 65, testicular cancer is now showing up in younger and younger men. Despite its low profile, in fact it's the most prevalent form of cancer among men in their 20s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curable Cancer | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...know a number of people in their 20s and 30s who are not multimillionaires. I know people that age who have no stock options whatsoever. Some of them, in fact, have no stock. Given all we read about 28-year-old Internet executives whose holdings were cut by recent stock dips to only about $40 million, or investment bankers who now feel they have a nest egg large enough to allow them to ease into retirement at 27, or 30-year-old writers who wandered onto the staff of the right sitcom while waiting for the first novel to jell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Young and the Debtless | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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