Word: grown
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...first glance, there are still plenty of signs of the good life to which this nation of 320,000 had grown accustomed. The parking lot of Kringlan shopping center in Reykjavík is filled with sparkling Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes. But inside the mall, bleary, blond-haired Icelanders pace the floor like zombies going through the motions of their former existence. "How can I rest easy knowing that everything I've saved all my life is gone?" asks a red-eyed advertising consultant dressed in a woolly cardigan and slippers as he sits in the food court...
...Most of the people I’m close to tell me that I’m still a child, especially after they see my home and the fact that there is no furniture in it. So I guess I don’t know much about being a grown...
...this doesn’t sound like a problem. Our generation has grown up on the internet, and most of us still manage to lead normal lives. Indeed, the very term “Net Addiction” belies the fact that those coming up with these horrifying categories do not belong to the internet generation. No one who has been near a computer since 1997 still uses the term “Net.” These are people who still say things like “What?...
...Vowell said that she has always found history intriguing having grown up in a family of history buffs. “History wasn’t something that happened to other people, but something that happened to everyone,” she said...
...craft.A more malleable tenet underpinning these principles is the anonymity of the artist. At its outset, street art was a component of the primarily signatory graffiti culture—an artist reflected his or her originality in the textures and contours of their own signature. As the movement has grown in numbers and sophistication, these personae have become less textual and more enigmatic. One of the most well known street art blogs, Streetsy.com, uploads daily photos of street art—postering, stensils, street sculpture, murals, decals, and other work whose merit transcends the pejorative “graffiti?...