Word: career
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cowan's performance against Brown on Saturday was a fairy tale ending to an outstanding Ivy League career...
...THIS IS NOT SURPRISING: He starred as a stoner in the film Dazed and Confused; his acting career appears stalled; and friend Sandra Bullock once called him "the mayor of all good times...
There is cricket in Compton because in 1995 a Beverly Hills chap rang Haber in need of one more body for a Sunday match in the Los Angeles Social Cricket Alliance. Haber, who had ditched a movie-producing career to run a homeless village in downtown Los Angeles with Hayes, offered Ted. Hayes, now 48, had never played but practically had a British accent by day's end. "The etiquette, the civility, the fact that no one is bigger than the game--I thought it was the perfect sport to teach homeless guys to be gentlemen," Hayes says. A year...
...Western standards, Lin's argument for a change in his life seems easy to justify. Back in his native Goose Village, his parents arranged his marriage to the peasant woman Shuyu so that they would have someone to nurse them through their final illnesses while Lin pursued his medical career far away in the army. Nearly everything about Shuyu appalls Lin, particularly her feet, which were bound in the old-fashioned way during her childhood. "This was the New China," Lin muses. "Who would look up to a young woman with bound feet?" He sees her only during...
...laboratory, Benzer has too much respect for life's complexities to believe in quick cures or fountains of youth. He often works through the night on his mutant Methuselah. He feels that aging should now be studied as a disease, and he would love to spend his next career, he says, "unraveling the facts." But he hates to see the study of longevity being overblown by the press. "I hope the hype will not result in the same letdown as Nixon's all-out war on cancer." Even if there is a central clock, it may be harder to control...