Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second type included both men and women and made up about 75% of the study's alcoholics. They started chronic drinking usually well after the age of 25, rarely had trouble with the law, and often successfully kicked the habit. Their children were only twice as likely to have trouble with alcohol compared with the general population. Cloninger labeled this category of alcoholism "milieu limited," indicating a genetic predisposition to the disease that is triggered by extended heavy drinking...
...Aziz Odeh, allegedly the guiding light behind a local group called Islamic Jihad, and Sheik Ahmad Yasin, the spiritual leader of the Islamic movement in Gaza since 1977. "We have to start changing things by hearts," warns Yasin, 51, who has been paralyzed from the neck down since age 15. "Then by words and then the role of the hand comes." At least two of four Gazans killed in a shoot-out with Israeli security forces last month have been identified as members of the Islamic Jihad, which is becoming the chief fomenter of violence in Gaza. Though Israeli officials...
Spurring the trend, which is largely confined to white professionals, is the fabled man crunch: single women over 35 far outnumber single men their age. According to Government statistics, nearly 40% of brides ages 35 to 44 resolve this demographic dilemma by marrying younger men. While the age difference is usually just a few years, the gap appears to be widening. In 1970 only 3.7% of brides were five years or more older than their mates; now that figure has reached...
Perhaps more important, many women today earn substantial incomes and no longer feel compelled to marry a "good provider." In the era of Joan Collins and Linda Evans, perceptions have changed. "The age at which we look at women as still being attractive and sexy has risen," says Carole Lieberman, a Los Angeles psychiatrist...
...young partners feel threatened by a woman's aggressiveness in the bedroom. As a result, women contend, sex is better, more inventive. Though such pairings have long been regarded as "unnatural," supporters argue that they are biologically astute. Since men reach their sexual peak around the age of 20, and women attain theirs in the 30s, sex drives are better matched. Says Jessica Myers, 43, a fund raiser in Trenton who is married to Editor Richard Carlin, 31: "These relationships make sense because women live longer...