Word: younger
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ITHINK I'VE BEEN in college too long. When I was younger, I was completely in tune with popular culture. I watched all the TV shows, went to all the movies and knew all the cool things to talk about. Since I've been burying myself in academics, I think I have missed out on some important cultural changes in America...
...whether or not the move ultimately results in the lifting of the conditions imposed on HIV-infected people wishing to enter the country, its immediate result may be that some community health organizations and younger AIDS researchers will be prevented from participating in the conference because of the expense...
This might have been the end of the line had not the younger N'donazi gone on to pursue a career in Western medicine. During his training in Africa, Europe and the U.S. as a health technician, he discovered that many Western medicines are derived from plants. Angered that a European missionary might dismiss traditions that he had never witnessed, N'donazi began to direct his energies toward revalidating the healing wisdom of Central African tribes...
...animals and plants. "If you stay in your village, it is easy to pick up this learning because it is still all around you," he says. "But when people go to Madang ((the nearest city)), they lose it very quickly." Throughout the country, though, Majnep notes that the younger generation feels shame rather than pride in what their ancestors knew...
...mine who specializes in English labor history (read: likes to talk about "the working class") raised his eyebrows last spring when I told him I was a prefect. In English boarding schools, he told me, prefects are older kids with the permission to whip the hell out of the younger kids...