Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fetched to think that every child in Dalton could grow up not just bilingual but familiar with both cultures," says Erwin Mitchell, a local attorney who helped recruit 17 teachers from the University of Monterrey in Mexico, where carpet mogul Bob Shaw had a contact. Dalton used public funds, of which there is a big supply, to fly the teachers here, put them up in apartments and buy them all memberships in a health club...
Most Amish teenagers negotiate rumschpringes safely and grow into adulthood newly eager to commit to the strictures of the church. "They see emptiness" in the English world, says Steven Scott, a research assistant who studies Amish adolescents at Elizabethtown College. "The thrills are not really satisfying. The stability in the Amish community looks more worthwhile." But drugs may change all that. How long can stability last if Time Out lets...
...contrast the middle manager to the Washington television commentator. Male television performers do have to shave (or formally grow a beard). But TV performers--the talent, as they are contemptuously known by TV producers--are actually encouraged to sulk and obsess about themselves. Most of them have the perquisites of being in charge--the higher pay, the glamour, the deference of the staff--without actually being in charge. They are pampered but powerless, like children. And the producers, who have the real power but not the atmospherics, and who usually work harder, also come to think...
...outsider, we probably resembled a bunch of teenage misfits--delinquents who never quite matured. And maybe we were. Maybe we should just grow up and act our age. Maybe it is futile to try and go back to something that's long past...
Buzzed from java, but hate the bland taste of decaf? One day a full-flavored brew minus the caffeine could fill your mug. Scientists have figured out how to grow coffee plants that appear to lack the "caffeine gene." The leaves have negligible caffeine. Researchers will know about the beans when the plants mature in about two years...