Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychiatrists pick out kids who are depressed from those who are simply moody? In his book "Help Me, I'm Sad," Fassler lists a number of physical symptoms in three age groups--preschoolers, young school-age children and adolescents. Among preschoolers, the signs include frequent, unexplained stomachaches, headaches and fatigue. Depressed school-age children frequently weigh 10 lbs. less than their peers, may have dramatic changes in sleep patterns and may start speaking in an affectless monotone. Adolescents go through eating disorders, dramatic weight gains or losses, promiscuity, drug abuse, excessive picking at acne, and fingernail biting to the point...
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Dr. Charles Lineweaver, an astrophysicist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, published an independent estimate of the universe's age in the journal Science. Lineweaver assessed the universe at 13.4 billion years old with a margin of error of 1.6 billion years...
College students living on campus are three times more likely to develop bacterial meningitis than people their age who do not attend college, according to a study in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...exactly the same age he was when he graduated," Broder says. "He has as much or more enthusiasm for reporting than anyone I've ever...
...age of 71, he found himself spending weeks in Antarctica "talking to scientists and building igloos...