Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plans a series of small measures in the coming weeks designed to ease the burden of the U.S. embargo on ordinary Cubans and foster greater interaction with Americans, such as relaxing restrictions on travel, money transfers and the sale and donation of medicines. The White House knows that old age, rather than the embargo, is what?s going to get the 72-year-old Castro out of office, and the U.S. has a long-term interest in fostering ties with the generation that will succeed him. But with Gore having to face the Florida governor?s brother in a tight...
...your kids and show them some respect. While the majority of parents in the study claim to have great respect for kids, only 31% of kids feel that adults actually do respect them "a lot." This "respect gap" is even more glaring among kids in the 12- to 14 age group: 27% said they get little respect from adults or none...
...three said they would never have suggested a biopsy. That was reassuring but confusing. The fact remained that a skilled radiologist had raised the specter of breast cancer, and while other doctors saw things differently, I was stuck. No one could undo her written report, not in this litigious age. Meanwhile, the idea that I might have cancer had taken root. I knew that if I didn't have the tissue analyzed by a pathologist, I'd never stop worrying...
...give her a sympathetic hug. Sitting at a starkly lit table, apparently in a police station, Calista Flockhart doesn't take long to shed her Ally affectations. Talking in a flat Midwestern twang, she recounts with grueling matter-of-factness how she was seduced by a teacher at age 13, had a baby, was abandoned by him and took revenge by...well, the playlet is called Medea Redux. Enough said...
...that rare miracle of fiction," Kip called it, "a human being created out of ink, paper and the imagination." Kip was also a master of self-deprecation. When a memoir written by octogenarian William Shirer came in, Kip, a fellow octogenarian, fussed: "One should never reach the age of 80 because by then you realize your life is not worth a good goddam." After hearing all his projects in recent years, I finally got up the nerve to say, "You ought to write your own memoir." He replied, "I haven't had an interesting life. I've only met interesting...