Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learn how to resolve conflicts and I think that she did it with an amazing amount of maturity for someone her age," she added...
...breakfast, and would be leaving the county three days before the shadow passed through. In my mind, though, I worried that we wouldn't have much fun. During my weekend at the beach, I didn't want the hassle of crowds, or hassles with the druids, New Age Travellers and anarchists who had been called to the eclipse by a higher power...
...event of such visceral impact elicited widely divergent responses from the world?s religions. Pope John Paul II terminated his morning audience with pilgrims to watch the eclipse, while adherents to all manner of New Age traditions in England gathered on beaches to welcome the darkened sun as a profound spiritual moment. Muslims in Egypt stayed indoors on orders of their clergy, while in Gujarat, India, priests rang temple bells and sounded gongs to ward off evil spirits. However humans chose to make sense of it, the eclipse was a humbling reminder of nature?s power...
STOKING THE STORK Just as the first test-tube baby comes of age--Louise Brown turned 21 in July--there's a major advance in in-vitro fertilization. Waiting four days instead of three before transferring an embryo from the lab dish to the mother's womb can increase the odds of the implantation's success. The new technique is called blastocyst transfer...
...hate) with the poem or book under review, bringing it alive even as he anatomized it. These essays, selected by Brad Leithauser, open the reader to the Morgan Library of Jarrell's mind, ablaze with a sensible passion and aphoristic wit. "The people who live in a Golden Age," he wrote, "usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." When Jarrell died in 1965, criticism suddenly looked a lot less yellow...