Word: left
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...birth control," Campos says. She has since studied her options and decided on a tubal ligation: a common procedure, usually performed after delivery, that permanently prevents pregnancy. "It has taken me since I was 17 to get off welfare and get a good job," says Campos, who has just left her public health counseling job in Gilroy, Calif., to prepare for the birth. "I love my children, but nine is way more than enough...
...signing them up, why would they even care if their parents understand them at all? Even the lonely losers of yesteryear are no longer locked in suburban basements playing Dungeons & Dragons; they are in downtown lofts uploading Web pages and concocting e-business ventures. There's hardly anyone left in our work force to mow the lawns and flip the burgers. Today's teenagers hold such a commanding position in our economy, it's only a matter of time before antiquated child-labor laws are inverted to establish a maximum wage and minimum hours. (In fact, the better question...
...seeing," writes Henry Grunwald in Twilight (Knopf; 130 pages; $20), and often we really see something only when it is about to leave us. For Grunwald, the beginning of such a loss came seven years ago, when a routine examination revealed that he was legally blind in his left eye and was one of roughly 15 million Americans who suffer from macular degeneration, a gradual diminishing of eyesight (often caused by age) for which there is no cure...
They tell me that, even though it's months before the first primary vote is to be cast, they've interviewed or surveyed or analyzed everybody else in the country. I'm the only one left. If I'm not willing to be a focus group, there can be no more focus groups, and everything will go sort of fuzzy...
...Wants To Be A Millionaire? originated in Britain. Now that it's a big enough hit to spawn clones like Fox's Greed, will other networks import game shows? Notebook took a spin around the world to see what gems are left (and who should pick them...