Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...species that can change its planet's chemistry just by day-to-day coming and going has, I suppose, achieved a kind of coming-of-age. We could celebrate or tremble. What do we do when it is not war that is killing us but progress? When it is not the actions of a deranged dictator threatening the world but the ordinary business of ordinary people? When there are no bombs dropping, nobody screaming, nothing to fear but a line on a graph or a handful of numbers on a computer printout? Dare we change the world on the basis...
...Dalai Lama, 54, was born Tenzin Gyatso. The son of a poor farmer, he was named spiritual and temporal ruler as the 14th Dalai Lama at age five, just before the Chinese army marched into Tibet. He fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule...
...remember--the age when the council was marked by parochial concerns and drifting vision of what students can accomplish for themselves. It was the age of campaigns for chocolate milk...
...These are people your age, involved in the same day-to-day pursuits you are," said Al Pessin, a Voice of America reporter who covered the Chinese protesters last June. "They went out on the square and starved themselves...
...will never control the use of illicit drugs or the abuse of alcohol among this age group if we do not take the fundamental--though perhaps politically unpopular--step of encouraging colleges and universities to adopt policies on campus alcohol advertising and alcohol industry sponsorship of college activities, "Bingaman said Tuesday...