Word: ages
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About 5,000 students high school age and older will descend on Harvard during the next few days to begin eight weeks of sweltering study at the Harvard Summer School...
Like the U.S. in which he prospered for so long, from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, Rockefeller was an organism of some contradiction: his idealism and his rapacity, the good John D. and his evil twin, went partners with each other. The deeply pious Baptist Sunday-school teacher would work the rest of the week as a corporate Borgia--the worst of the "malefactors of great wealth," according to Teddy Roosevelt. In his parallel universe of philanthropy, the lipless, squinty skinflint would dispense hundreds of millions of dollars, which among many other things built the University of Chicago...
...much sex goes on among the other kids in their grade? Says H.: "There are some who do make out; they do hang out on the couch at parties. I think they go as far as kids our age should. They can't go beyond the makeout stage because somebody will find...
Most baby boomers plan to keep working well past retirement age, according to an A.A.R.P. poll released last week. It's a good thing, since they might not have an alternative. Only 65% of eligible Americans are contributing to 401(k) plans, and just 10% are saving the maximum. Most employers match a portion of contributions--say, the first $3,000--so don't leave that money on the table...
Acting, which she has done since age 8, was her escape route. "You know how little kids always want to have a job, to be their fathers with the briefcases? Well, this job gave me a purpose." Now, she confesses, she's no longer always angry--"although I am kind of enraged on a regular basis...