Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inclusion of gay victims in ceremonies marking the country's fourth annual Holocaust Memorial day reflects a generational shift in German society. "Those in power today came of age during the radical protests of 1968," says Sautter. "They're more relaxed about acknowledging and discussing the Holocaust, compared with the earlier generation who were riddled with guilt and shame. Opening up these issues has been a lot healthier for Germany...
Even if your mom or grandmother had breast cancer, you're not automatically at greater risk. It depends on their age when they developed the disease. In the U.S., the incidence of breast cancer in women 80 to 85 years old is 15 times as high as it is for women 30 to 34 years old. So if your mother and grandmother had breast cancer in their 70s, you face no more risk than anyone else your age. But if your mother and grandmother had breast cancer before they turned 50, you may have inherited a genetic predisposition toward...
Ingmar Bergman has been listening to, and making, these confessions for half a century--in films, such as The Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly and Persona, that define the age of anxiety. And though Bergman retired from film directing in 1983, he has continued to write for the screen, wrestling with his Lutheran God, facing up to his household demons, making them the stuff of astringent artistry...
John Laroche is a serial monomaniac who learns everything about Ice Age fossils; then chucks fossils for orchids, becomes a celebrated breeder, then a thief of wild orchids; and finally turns his back on the plant world and its obsessed hobbyists and dives into computers. As he explains to the author of this loose-jointed but absorbing account, "When I was a baby I probably got exposed to something that mutated me, and now I'm incredibly smart." Writer Orlean, at any rate, is a superb tour guide through the loony subculture of Florida's orchid fanciers, and a writer...
...care that the lines are down between them and Washington is that in the past few years, so many new lines have gone up; people have put out leads, cables, wires, dishes and high-speed traces connecting them to just about everything else. In a hyperconnected digital age, the last thing anyone can afford is an analog connection to a government that doesn't get it, can't keep up and is probably only going to make things worse if it finds you. Gordon Smith, the freshman Republican Senator from Oregon, is worried that a government engineered more than...