Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because American justice grinds on so slowly, because the appeals process in death-penalty cases often lasts years, juveniles who face capital punishment are almost always adults by the time the sentence is carried out. The aging perhaps makes it easier to flip the switch or pull the lever. But it also makes it harder to connect the criminal to the crime. "By the time the state gets around to executing these people, the kid who committed the crime no longer exists," says lawyer David Bruck, who is handling the appeal of Joseph Hudgins, 22, who was convicted of murder...
Only in the worlds of figure skating and Nabokov does the age of 17 seem old. But Michelle Kwan, all of 17 and already once an ousted champion, embodies fallibility and, yes, maturity as she crosses blades with her toughest competitor, Tara Lipinski, 15 (rid of her final baby molar only last year when she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships). Hordes of sponsors and adoring young fans are choosing sides. Even bookstores are battlegrounds, with Lipinski's Triumph on Ice taking on Kwan's Heart of a Champion. A real showdown, though, took place last week...
...American roads these days the fixation is on brawn and horsepower: trucks now outsell cars, and minivans and sport-utility vehicles lug the family around. (By the way, where's the New Age VW Microbus?) VW tried to cover itself by putting its tiny new number on steroids, offering the front-wheel-drive Beetle with a V-6 engine producing 150 h.p.--more than double the horses of the original. That may help some. But General Motors chairman John F. Smith declares, "Little cars don't sell here anymore. They're gone. The small car in America has disappeared. They...
...striking two-page photo of Princess Diana deserves Shakespeare's complete quotation, not just a portion of it: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety..." YOLANDA LOPEZ-HEAD Glendale, Calif...
...ROCK OF AGES Can old men make new music? The Grammy nominators seem to think so. The five codgers competing for best rock vocal boast an average age of 51. Bob Dylan received his first Grammy nomination before four of the five female nominees were born. The women's division skews significantly younger and includes the barely legal Fiona Apple...