Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night when students unabashedly took to the yard au naturel, unconcerned with their personal privacy during the Primal Scream, professors and experts of the Internet and the law gathered at the Business School's Pound Hall to discuss ways of protecting confidential personal information in the age of the Internet...
...life-threatening tubal pregnancy [which] is the leading cause of first-trimester, pregnancy-related deaths in American women.... In addition, recent research has shown that women infected with chlamydia have a three-to five-fold increased risk of acquiring HIV, if exposed.... "It is particularly troubling for our age group, as the CDC notes: "teenage girls have the highest rates of chlamydial infection. ...15- to 19-year-old girls represent 46 percent of infections and 20- to 24-year-old women represent another 33 percent...
...actively and incorporated into people's daily lives. Real change will occur when students can discuss human sexuality maturely and comfortably with their peers, in lunchtime discussions, phone conversations, and all of the other modes in which people provide cues that set the behavioral norms of their own age cohort...
...explosive growth in these regions, says the Population Reference Bureau, is due not only to high birth rates but to the young age at which mothers have their children, telescoping the time between generations. Such factors mean the human explosion won't just end with industrialization. And unless education, cultural changes and family planning can radically reduce fertility rates, economists may soon need to dust off their copies of the Malthusian Doctrine...
...14th century artifact. However, even if it is the handiwork of a person, it seems to represent some force or intelligence beyond our understanding. Perhaps it should be regarded as a revelation from an unknown prophet to a future generation, an expression so tangible that even an age so obsessed with material things as our own might understand it, just as the disciple Thomas was allowed to touch the wounds of our Lord with his own hands in order to believe and have faith. DANIEL MERCER Pennsauken...