Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father is a contrarian," says his daughter Abigail, 34, a Fidelity portfolio manager whom many expect to succeed Johnson. Abigail's younger brother, Edward Crosby Johnson 4th, 31, works for Fidelity Properties, the company's real estate...
...women, who have just met, sit side by side in a drab London cafe near a tube station. The younger woman, Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), has told the older, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), that she is her daughter, given up for adoption 28 years ago. Cynthia curdles in disbelief, for she is white, Hortense black. "I don't mean nothin' by it, darlin'," Cynthia protests in her tiny voice, "but I ain't never been with a black man in my life." She stares into the void, and then a chill comes over her stricken face--you can almost...
Some old people become more upset about human foibles than they did when they were younger--part of getting ready to leave. For others, human idiocy becomes increasingly precious; they begin to see in the state of mind we will have in heaven. "What about heaven?" I said to Harold, who is ninety-four and lives in the VA Hospital in Tucson. He said, "Memory is heaven." The physicist emeritus tottering across the campus of Cal Tech through the hazy sunshine occasionally chuckles to himself. Yet it has happened to many others, and to you, too, Galway--when illness...
Does that mean that taking DHEA can somehow stave off the aging process? When scientists tested this proposition on animals, they found to their astonishment that it seemed to do just that. When older, slower mice were given DHEA, they became more active and learned as easily as younger rodents to run mazes. Other studies suggested that the hormone may help fight cancer, diabetes and heart disease...
Zamora brandished a barbell weight and smashed it with a sickening thud on the younger girl's head, according to police. To the horror of her attackers, Jones crawled out through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about...