Word: adults
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...better bet to navigate the now hostile waters of world opinion, the Republicans pounced, suggesting that he is some kind of Eurosnob--forcing Kerry, a Vietnam veteran, to remind people that he had fought for his country and has served it as a public official for most of his adult life...
...violence. The burly, cigar-smoking al-Shahwani has been in the war business most of his adult life and in the spy game for more than a decade. That's one reason he was chosen for the job: he provides the hard edge the fledgling government needs to combat elusive but ruthless enemies who seem only to get stronger. If they opt for mayhem, blood and death, then al-Shahwani is more than ready to trade fire with them. "We know how to play that game," he says. He also knows the cost of playing it: Saddam killed his three...
...didn't have any of this so-called success until I was 35 years old with Roger & Me. Up until that point, I never made more than $15,000 a year. When you spend the first 17 years--in other words, half--of your adult life earning $15,000 or less, it really doesn't matter what kind of success you have after that. It's so ingrained...
...pretty - they don't make powerful off-road vehicles, and so may actually gain market share from Toyota, VW and others if the tax scheme goes ahead. Viagra's Chinese Blues In Beijing's "adult health centers", vying with ticklers, oils and fake genitalia, knockoff Viagra pills are a bestseller that have all but replaced the traditional cure for impotence - tiger penis. The struggle by Pfizer, Viagra's creator, to sell the real thing got even tougher last week when China's patent office overturned the drug's patent there, potentially handing the market to locally made generics. The decision...
...Julia Westerinen, 69, looks white, but she is descended from Sally Hemings' youngest son, Eston. Growing up in Madison, Wis., in the 1930s and '40s, Westerinen was not allowed to play with black children. "My parents told me to stick to my own kind," she says. Even as an adult, she realized that her friendships with blacks had been superficial. "I thought we were friends, but I never had them over to my house, and they never had me to theirs," she says. She never knew of her ancestor Eston. That is because Eston was light-skinned enough to pass...