Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years later, Cities tells the story of cowboy John Grady Cole and his trailmates as they drift south of the border to find respite from modern encroachments. The time is 1952, about when pickups started looking prettier than horses. The starting place is New Mexico, nursery to the atomic age...
...would like to remind the government that 15 minutes spent in daily prayer would add up to 45 hours each school year that could otherwise be spent on better education. I have nothing against the practice of religion; I just don't want it in school. L.M. MYERCHIN, age 14 San Bernardino, Calif...
...proposal to bring mandatory Christian prayer back into schools is appalling. If people want to pray, they should do it on their own time. NICHOLAS E. CLARK-SPEAR, age 13 Northford, Conn...
...minutes. Now businesses are rushing to tap what appears to be a market with unlimited potential. Microsoft is spurring the boom by cosponsoring, with the American Association of Retired Persons, a series of 500 free seminars around the country to introduce some 50,000 people over age 50 to the brave new world of computers and the Internet. Once online, these "newbies" are expected to start to spend real--not virtual--money...
...more targeted commerce." Sites that are community centered, he says, will eventually attract clients "that will be the Procter & Gambles of the world." In some cases that is already happening. Last summer Mary Furlong, the founder of the nonprofit Senior Net educational centers, created the definitely-for-profit Third Age and thinks of it as "my grandmother's front porch," a place where people gather to hear news and swap information. With a database of more than 5,000 pages of free and discounted products and services and sponsors like Hallmark and Toys "R" Us, it's more like...