Word: breeds
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Happily for the offspring who result from this late-life breeding, the evidence suggests that advanced years are no bar to raising children well. But if the public and scientific perception of older parents has changed, nature hasn't got the message. With an ample supply of vigorous twentysomethings willing to handle the procreative duties, it has never relished the prospect of a population of comparatively weary middle-agers joining the parenting party. It's not for nothing that with 2 a.m. feedings, PTA meetings and after-school trips to Gymboree, our most energetic years coincide with our most fertile...
...mouse. Called Integrion, the partnership will phase in such activities as bill paying, electronic lending and stock and bond trading beginning next year. "If we are dinosaurs," says Robert Gillespie, the chief executive of Cleveland-based KeyCorp, "then we're putting competitors on notice that a new breed has evolved with a voracious appetite for expanded market share...
...spite of all of this, I always look forward to the summer, because I am part of a seemingly dying breed: the tennis...
Adam Sandler is of the new S.N.L. breed. His Cajun Man, Opera Man and the rest were not varied characters; they were expressions of one capacious ego. The issue for him was not selling out but finding a buyer. And Hollywood, ever desperate for performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof...
Members of the new breed of elected tribal leaders hope the youngsters will return fortified against that mess, with traditional Lakota values they can inject into their communities, such as respect for the earth and the connectedness of all living things. "We call it seventh-generational thinking," explains Bourland. "Seven generations ago, our ancestors loved us so much that we are still here as a people. We have to create a world not only for today, but for seven generations to come. The young people from this camp are going to be the messengers for the future...