Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people of 2086 by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt, the capsule will include high-quality original prints of the pictures in this week's Images section, as well as next week's Man of the Year issue. When the container is opened, the contents should help explain much of our age to the children of children who have not yet been born...
...midst of the most severe crisis of his presidency, Ronald Reagan must confront the wear and tear of age on his body. On Jan. 4 the President will enter Bethesda Naval Hospital for prostate surgery. Reagan, 75, suffers from an ailment common to men over 50: uncomfortable pressure on the urinary tract from an enlarged prostate gland. Reagan will also receive a colonoscopy to track his recovery from his 1985 cancer operation...
Careers have been proving more attractive to women than early marriage. More than half of all women now work, and the median age of a woman at her first marriage has increased by two years in the past decade, a huge jump compared with the typically glacial pace of demographic change. Last week, however, the Census Bureau announced a reversal in that trend. New findings show that the median age of first-time brides registered its first drop in 20 years, falling to 23.1 years from a record...
White and delicate, high tech yet oddly primitive, the plane looks like some elegant insect or a sleek, latter-day pterodactyl. With her reedlike central wing slicing across three slender cylinders, she might have been designed by an austere modern sculptor rather than an aeronautical engineer. In an age of space travel and supersonic flight, her mission is a throwback to a different kind of odyssey: to fly not faster, but longer. Not higher, but farther. Voyager is a flight of fancy, of quaint possibility...
Voyager is trundling along at an average 110 miles an hour, an almost Victorian pace by jet-age standards. (Lindbergh's average cruising speed was 107 m.p.h.) While contemporary travel makes the world a smaller place as the Concorde zips from New York to Paris in less than four hours, the flight of Voyager seems to restore the planet to its full, true grandeur. Even if the plane does not make it all the way back, Yeager says, she will still feel a sense of achievement. "If we made the attempt and something happened to the airplane," she said...