Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pregnancy runs no smoother than the course of true love, and Apatow's obstetrical observations - yes, natural childbirth devotees may well call for painkillers when labor becomes more intense than advertised - are shrewd and edgy. And Alison's hormonally induced moodiness, as well as Ben's slouching progress toward grown-up status, are craftily presented. But for all his hipness and Hollywood hotness, Apatow is, at heart, a square. He clearly believes in marriage, family, bourgeois dutifulness. Maybe his movie is a little repetitive, but that's a negligible price to pay for the careful blending of wildness and good...
...Cambodia's economy may have grown 10.4% last year, fueled by an influx of Chinese investment and strong clothing exports, but the country is still heavily dependent on agriculture-more than 80% of its 14 million citizens are farmers. Cambodia's population has doubled since 1975, and most of these extra mouths are in the countryside. In Phnom Penh, the tree-lined colonial avenues are being transformed by rapid construction that is uprooting fragrant frangipani trees in favor of glass-plated office buildings. The newfound wealth, though, hasn't extended much past city borders, and the disparity between rural residents...
...Arafat and his colleagues, exiled in distant lands, were losing touch with the Palestinian reality. By 1987 Omar and thousands of youths like him had grown impatient waiting for their saviors and launched their own uprising against the Israelis. The spark for the intifadeh, as it became known, was a Gaza traffic accident in which an Israeli driver killed several Palestinian laborers. Revolt spread all over the Palestinian territories, including Jalazon. "We burned tires in the road and threw stones," recalls Omar's friend Ismaeen, who wears a muscle shirt and has the dark, heavy-lidded eyes of an Egyptian...
...that Nazarbayev will ever step down. Nor did Aliyev, who is married to Dariga, until recently the President's ideologist and confidante (the couple are the parents of Nuralli, Nazarbayev's 22-year-old grandson and the apple of his eye). Nevertheless, the would-be President for Life had grown to detest his son-in-law through the years...
...while the crackdown on dissidents has been condemned internationally, there's been little public outrage at home. Right now, life has never looked better for most Vietnamese: the economy has grown by more than 7% a year over the past decade, second in Asia only to China's, and this year's entry into the World Trade Organization has touched off a flood of foreign investment. A 2006 Gallup International survey called Vietnam the world's most optimistic country for the fourth year in a row, with 94% of urban residents predicting life would improve in 2007. As long...