Word: adult
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FOOTNOTE: *This survey was conducted by telephone February 17 and 18 among 1,014 adult Americans...
...determining who would best mold the young girl into an adult, the judge did not grapple with any elements of human nature except those that can be clearly specified in a contract, assessed and sold. In such a context, his statement that he was influenced greatly by what he believed to be the Sterns' greater ability to explain the circumstances of Melissa's birth and upbringing makes sad sense...
...Sundays, Ostling squeezes out time to instruct an adult Bible-study class at the Christian Reformed Church in Ridgewood, N.J., where he, his wife Joan and daughters Margaret, 15, and Elizabeth, 14, are all members of the congregation. He believes the current upheaval among the cathedrals of the airwaves may create benefits for less flamboyant Christian ministries. "Out of this," says he, "the unglamorous church on the corner may come out looking much more attractive...
Canada authorized the new hunt to aid the struggling economy of Newfoundland, where unemployment is now 18%. But the prey will be limited to adult seals, which must be shot instead of clubbed. Even so, animal-rights activists are mulling a worldwide boycott of Canadian marine products...
Anton (who is portrayed as an adult by a wonderfully wary actor named Derek de Lint) keeps running into other witnesses to the assault and its aftermath: the underground fighter who was one of the assassins; the woman who helped move the murdered man's body; even the son of the victim. Indeed, Anton, without seeming quite aware of what he is doing, marries a woman who looks like the Resistance heroine with whom he shared a cell on the night of the assault and who, it is revealed, also participated in it (both are played, with a spirit that...