Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story takes place in the near future, when New York residents live underground and travel via personal subway cars because of a fatally potent sun. The protagonist, fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, leaves for a recently discovered planet with her two younger brothers and her father after her mother dies. The family moves into a small colony, a town in the making, where Americans live among the planet's indigenous inhabitants, the Archbuilders. Pella eventually becomes infected by a virus that enables her to spy unnoticed on other colonists. As the plot progresses, she develops a controlling attraction for Efram...
...from their cagelike dormitories may have noticed that Spring wardrobe time is here. To elicit just the right response, FM suggests the Lolita Look. While fashion guru Marc Jacobs has advocated the parochial pleated skirt look this season, also called 'the sorority girl look," we suggest aiming a little younger. Think: pubescent...
...Percentage of patients who underwent wrinkle-injection procedures in 1996 who were age 18 or younger...
...Think Different." Gandhi, in his younger days a sophisticated and Westernized lawyer, did indeed change his thinking more radically than most people do. Ghanshyam Das Birla, one of the merchant princes who backed him, once said, "He was more modern than I. But he made a conscious decision to go back to the Middle Ages." This is not, presumably, the revolutionary new direction in thought that the good folks at Apple are seeking to encourage...
...colleagues in the underground leadership of Solidarity kept the flame alight, until the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin brought new hope. In 1988 there was another occupation strike in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, which Walesa again joined--though this time as the grand old man among younger workers. A few months later, the Polish communists entered into negotiations with Solidarity, at the first Round Table of 1989. Walesa and his colleagues secured semifree elections in which Solidarity proceeded to triumph. In August, just nine years after he had climbed over the shipyard wall, Poland got its first...