Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will smokers take Liggett's mea culpas to heart and light up less often? After declining for years, smoking has leveled off, and teens seem to be increasing their intake. Older smokers may pay more heed than younger ones to warnings about addiction on Liggett cigarette labels. That's because the young are more apt to look upon smoking as cool and the consequences a distant threat. And they may cling to that view even when a major manufacturer admits that with regard to the truth about cigarettes and health, it has been blowing smoke for years...
Such delays can prove fatal. Tanya (not her real name), an 11-year-old from Miami who is HIV positive, had to watch her younger sister die last year while they waited for permission to take a protease inhibitor. Both girls had been infected in utero; their mother died a couple of years later. "The [pharmaceutical company] said they didn't have the right dosage for children," the girls' foster mother recalls. "They told us to hold out. But by the time she got accepted, it was too late [for Tanya's sister]." In February, Tanya started combination therapy with...
...that was what enabled him to connect with America in a way few avant-garde painters had. He loved the lushness, the grittiness, the obtrusive weirdness of American cultural vernaculars. Though by the end of the '50s, laden with celebrity, he had become the man for younger artists to beat, it is impossible to imagine Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and some of the younger Pop artists developing their visions except in response to his, or to disentangle their revolt against his gestural, richly inflected touch from their homage...
...Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger and more variegated...
Even as she sped past her 100th year, Sister Mary projected the energy and enthusiasm of a much younger woman. With the aid of a magnifying glass, she kept abreast of national affairs by reading newspapers and magazines. With the aid of a globe, she prayed for the women and children of the world, one continent at a time. In fact, so savvy did Sister Mary seem, so tuned in to her surroundings, that University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon began to think of her as a kind of gold standard for successful aging...