Word: adults
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...addition to the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and the Capitol or White House, possible targets included CIA and FBI headquarters, unidentified nuclear-power plants and the tallest buildings in California and Washington State. Mohammed hoped to pilot the 10th plane himself and land it after killing all the adult male passengers. He then planned to make a fiery, anti-American speech on the tarmac and release all the women and children...
...little surprise that he told a reporter in April 2001 that writing after Corelli was like "being stood stark naked in Trafalgar Square and being told to get an erection." Britain's Daily Telegraph went so far as to call the release of his new novel "the adult equivalent of the launch of a Harry Potter book." That's a lot of pressure, and unfortunately de Bernières doesn't live up to it. The book's setting is promising enough. De Bernières' first four novels were all set in picturesque but war-torn corners...
...Does it take brain experiments to discover that we teens are rebellious? My five-year-old brother could have told you that. Furthermore, I don't appreciate how teenagers are categorized as one group. Each of us is unique, just like every adult. Name Withheld Tulsa...
Bush is also typical in coming to Jesus as an adult in part through the intimate, therapeutic machinery of a men's Bible study. At a time in his life when his business was failing (the early 1980s saw the collapse of the oil industry in Midland, Texas) and his marriage was strained by his heavy drinking, Bush did not find the strength he needed in the emotionally austere rituals with which he had been raised or in the Sunday-morning services he and Laura attended regularly. Instead, he relied on a series of personal encounters, small group study...
...unfailingly courteous to the people around him, thoughtful to the little guy, the elevator operator, the butler at the White House." George H.W. Bush is calling up memories from his years as Reagan's political mate, Vice President and friend, a huge and profound segment of Bush's crowded adult life. Yet the only Reagan movie he could remember seeing was the football classic Knute Rockne--All American, in which Reagan starred as the legendary George Gipp (the Gipper) of Notre Dame...