Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids in a hurry to grow up, as parents presume? No way, say 8 out of 10 of the 6- to 11-year-olds who answered this question. "Because then I'll have to manage my own money and make my own dinner," explained one boy to a pollster. Despite a precocious fondness for R-rated movies (which half the 9- to 11-year-olds and 81% of 12- to 14-year-olds say they've seen), kids are not even eager to become teenagers. Younger kids have more fun, insist 64% of 6- to 11-year-olds. Even...
...saying that playing with these toys make little boys grow up to be neurotic," he said. But Pope added that the bulked-up toys affect society's view of the ideal male body...
...saying that playing with these toys make little boys grow up to be neurotic," he said. But Pope added that the bulked-up toys affect society's view of the ideal male body...
European pressure on Turkey to commute the death sentence of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan looks set to grow, but that pressure may, paradoxically, help seal his fate. Nationalist passions may make it even more difficult for the government to back down on hanging Ocalan in the face of violent protests by his supporters and pressure from Europe. Germany led the European chorus warning Ankara that hanging Ocalan might deal a death blow to Turkey?s ambitions to enter the European Union, and it was easy to see why Bonn was nervous: Turkish-owned businesses were firebombed across Germany overnight...
...Internet is still in its infancy, but it is gaining more users every day and, in many respects, it is already changing society, just as other media have changed society. As the Internet continues to grow--when every school is wired to the Web, as so many politicians promise, and when everyone has an e-mail address from the postal service--how will society change, and will it be for the better...