Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some revelers said the celebration is a way of passing on tradition to the younger generation...
...with a pointed stone projectile. Mixed in were stone tools and rounded pebbles that could have been made only by humans. Some archaeologists, however, believe the artifacts found at Taima-Taima became interspersed with the mastodon bones as the water level in the hole rose and are therefore much younger than they seem. Even so, there is strong interest in the site because its reputed age is close to that of Monte Verde...
HORMONES GET BLAMED FOR JUST ABOUT EVERY ADolescent foible, so here's another to add to the list: teenagers may stay up later than younger kids because of physical changes during puberty, a study in the journal Sleep suggests. Until now, researchers (and certainly parents) assumed that night-owl adolescents were either being rebellious or pressured by friends. But a study of 458 sixth-graders, controlled for some social factors, found that students who were more physically mature chose to go to bed later than those just entering puberty. The same students also slept later on weekends than their prepubescent...
...their comfortable home in Martinez, near San Francisco. They proudly show off paintings by Kathy. Isabel points to a Disneyland cup bearing the name of her younger sister Jennifer, 21. And finally a gray stuffed rabbit, intended for a little girl named Chanel...
After a while, her younger sister moved to be with her. Isabel didn't understand why. Only later did she hear that Kathy had been pregnant -- by Koresh. "That was the worst thing that ever happened in our lives," says Guillermo. Isabel glares at him. "Well, at the time," he adds emptily. "Now it's nothing...