Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids are smarter and hipper than the boomers in their prime, why aren't they changing the world? You already know the easy answers. AIDS, harder drugs, pocket-size weapons of mass destruction, global warming, economic scarcity--the world today doesn't lend itself to simplistic oppositions or easy optimism. But beyond that, the new counterculture is basically postpolitical and tribalized. The TAZ movement eschews changing the world in favor of finding some liberated space, or even a liberated moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative...
...figure drops to 59% for those in their 30s, and on down to 32% for those in their 50s. Of course, it's conceivable that these numbers are a reflection less of raw, hurtful prejudice than of the sad truth that older writers, to give but one example, just aren't funny enough to write for Veronica's Closet--and how unfunny that must be. Neither explanation, I might add, is much comfort for someone on the cusp of a fifth decade...
...believe rates will keep falling. I'd like to be in a position to refinance again next year without losing any closing costs. The macro bet is to get a one-year, adjustable-rate mortgage. But ARM rates aren't low enough, and I'm opposed to making a macro bet with my home. I could, gulp, be wrong about rates. If I'm right, though, the smart loan is one without closing costs. The time to buy down your rate by paying points and fees is when market rates are poised to trend up, and that...
...also playing Malcolm in a production of Macbeth. Despite all these really great things, my marks in school are really bad, and I mean really, really bad. I pay more attention to my hobbies than to school, and it's actually getting me somewhere. So marks aren't everything. ALAN HOLMAN, age 17 Saskatoon, Sask...
...touch pads and eraser-head pointers on notebook computers are great space savers but aren't much good for dodging a tackle in NFL Blitz or going for the goal in Fox Sports Soccer 99. The Gravis Stinger ($40), designed especially for notebooks, handily plugs into a serial port (rather than the game port notebooks lack) but is nearly as bulky as the computers it plugs into...