Word: ages
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...appreciate fully the incongruities of Tenzin Gyatso's life in the celebrity age, you have to recall that he was born in a cowshed in a tiny farming village in what was locally known as the Wood Hog Year (1935). The previous Dalai Lama, the 13th, had been one of the great reforming spirits of a tradition whose leaders had all too often been ineffectual boys manipulated by regents. Beset by imperialists of all stripes, the farsighted Lama, in his last written testament, predicted a time in Tibet's history, soon, when "monks and monasteries will be destroyed...
...age of four he was installed upon the Lion Throne in Lhasa and inducted into a formidable course of monastic studies. By the age of six he was choosing his own regent, and by the time he was 11 he was weathering a civil uprising. The Dalai Lama has written with typical warmth about his unworldly boyhood in the cold, dark, thousand-room Potala Palace, playing games with the palace sweepers, rigging up a hand-cranked projector on which he could watch Tarzan movies and Henry V, and clobbering his only real playmate--his immediate elder brother Lobsang Samten--serene...
...Nine-year age difference...
...Have a round belly 225 lbs.: Average weight 56.9: Average age 5 ft. 8 in.: Average height 66%: Attended college or have a graduate degree 8.55: Average years of Santa experience...
...uses them risks killing off nearly everyone on the planet. It is a big mistake to think Saddam Hussein is an enemy solely of the U.S. He is an enemy of the human species. He is apparently willing to risk destroying our civilization and sending us into another Dark Ages. We need a U.N. that is strong enough to prevent one country from invading another. We have a right to die of old age, not germ warfare. ROB JOHNSON Urbana...