Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...natural world, childhood, innocence, debauchery and the throwing off of convention, social as well as literary. When she was not writing, she was re-creating herself: taking three husbands and countless lovers, both male and female; exploring the Paris demimonde; even, strapped for cash, starting a beauty business at age 58. Such a life--one that has been copiously documented, by Colette and others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages; $30), with both an embarrassment of riches and a Sisyphean task. Despite working on this book for nine years, Thurman...
...roots of De la Rocha's rage are in his hometown of Irvine, Calif. He went to a mostly white high school where, as a Chicano, he seethed at racist comments about "wetbacks" made by students and teachers alike. At age 17, he saw a show by the black punk group Bad Brains, and it was "a personal revolution." De la Rocha, Morello, drummer Brad Wilk and bassist Tim Commerford formed Rage...
Your article on the recent study done by this commission warning of the dangers of letting infants sleep in adult beds was off base [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR FAMILY, Oct. 11]. We showed that every year 64 children under the age of two die in adult beds. Your article referred to the deaths as "only 64," but even one death is too many. Since 1989 the CPSC has warned that infants should never be put to sleep in adult beds because of the risk of entrapment or suffocation. This is the first study to quantify the number of fatalities resulting from...
Ours is the only country in the world that has suffered through a nuclear bomb. We Japanese know firsthand how life threatening nuclear power is. Did JCO forget the terror of this invisible force? We must once again come to terms with the horrors of the nuclear age and investigate the security of all the nuclear facilities in Japan. MEGMI YASHIRO Okegawa, Japan...
...dinosaurs, not just how it happened--most likely in the aftermath of a cataclysmic comet or an asteroid impact 65 million years ago--but also the variety of species that were around at the time. But there is very little evidence about the other end of the age of dinosaurs. No one knows precisely when the "terrible lizards" arose or what the earliest dinosaurs were like...