Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They assure me that I'll be paid $50 for my cooperation and be provided with a box lunch, choice of chicken-salad sandwich or smoked-turkey-and-arugula wrap. I should be aware, they say, that my lunch choice, coordinated with my party registration and weighted for my age and sex, will be used as one of the predictors of who will occupy the White House after January...
Today sci-tech centers are pushing the envelope even further with what Wint calls "the creation of a life-enhancing experience." They're getting not only bigger and better but also more varied and engaging. In an increasingly complex scientific age, Wint says, "we help get the message out; that's our mission." And as the best of them show brilliantly, they not only appeal to our sense of play but also cultivate our natural curiosity and wonder...
20TH CENTURY RELICS What use are postcards in an age of e-mail and cheap long-distance calls? Almost none. Which may be why they're enjoying a moment of higher hipness. Barneys' New York City flagship store opens two new floors this month, with dressing rooms covered in cards from highway rest stops. And Phaidon has just released Boring Postcards, a coffee-table book of British cards featuring roads, old malls and unremarkable views. Groovy, baby...
...American Medical Association reports that adults who had experienced five or more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken family member--were more likely to have taken up smoking. They were about five times more likely to have started smoking by age 14 than those with no childhood trauma. That's another good reason to identify and help troubled kids...
WHEN YOU'RE OLDER With age comes wisdom, maturity...and a taste for spinach. A study of more than 300 women ages 21 to 84 found that sensitivity to the bitterness in such vegetables as broccoli and spinach wanes with age. The older women preferred sour fruits such as grapefruit and lemons and bitter beverages such as coffee and tea more often than their younger counterparts. So don't worry if your kids don't like broccoli. They probably will, eventually...