Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generation is afraid of relationships in general, and they are the ultimate skeptics when it comes to marriage. Some young adults maintain they will wait to get married, in the hope that time will bring a more compatible mate and the maturity to avoid a divorce. But few of them have any real blueprint for how a successful relationship should function. "We never saw commitment at work," says Robert Higgins, 26, a graduate student in music at Ohio's University of Akron...
Finding a date on a Saturday night, let alone a mate, is a challenge for a generation that has elevated casual commitment to an art form. Despite their nostalgia for family values, few in their 20s are eager to revive a 1950s mentality about pairing off. Rick Bruno, 22, who will enter Yale Medical School in the fall, would rather think of himself as a free agent. Says he: "Not getting hurt is a big priority with me." Others are concerned that the generation is too detached to form caring relationships. "People are afraid to like each other," says Leslie...
...biologist Oliver. "They have no fear of man," he says. In his hand, Oliver hides a mouse. The moment he exposes it, dangling it by its tail, the mouse disappears in a blur of wings and razor-sharp talons. The owl has carried it off and up to its mate, who snips off the mouse's head and ferries it skyward to the nest, where two snowy hatchlings devour...
...back in power in Panama. At the White House, President Clementine Fox is brooding about sending troops to dislodge him, and her peacenik husband Guy, the First Hubby, sourly tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became President when her running mate, the victorious Democratic candidate, was brained by a fish (no assassination, just a 13-lb. porgy ex machina sucked up by a waterspout and dumped on him by fate and a desperate author...
...U.S.S. Iowa was "most probably" caused by sabotage, its investigation was widely criticized as sloppy and its conclusion as unjustified. Last week testimony by the General Accounting Office gave the critics strong support. The GAO found that the disaster may not have been triggered by a crewman, Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig, as the Navy hypothesized...