Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Afrikaner is at heart an African. He knows that the land must be shared somehow. We must play a reassuring role, embracing the Afrikaners in spite of the hideous past. If we do not do that, I think they would rather die fighting than compromise. Many of the younger generation of whites can come to accept the equality of black people and respect them...
...controversial report suggests the disease often begins in younger women who have no outward sign of bone problems. The findings, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team from the University of British Columbia, raise the possibility that more than half of all healthy women in their 30s and 40s could be suffering from bone damage as a result of subtle, undetected disturbances in their menstrual cycles. But some experts doubt the conclusions and call for follow-up trials before doctors change their approach to the disease...
...career women face equally great obstacles at home, where men feel no obligation to pitch in. A 1986 government survey of dual-career couples found that men devote only eight minutes of a workday to household chores and child rearing, compared with 3 1/2 hours for their wives. Younger men increasingly take out the garbage and play with their children on weekends but still leave most household affairs to their wives. A 33-year-old banker typically relies on his wife to lay out his clothes each morning. But, he adds, "I select the necktie...
...piling up. In most parts of the country, though, workshops on how to make the transition and find jobs are available. Information is also offered by the Displaced Homemakers Network. Older women are often surprised to find that they can learn new skills such as computer processing. For younger women, the lesson is one best learned early: more than ever, the job of full-time homemaker may be the riskiest profession to choose...
...will have the biggest impact on women in their 40s who have not yet reached menopause but have failed to conceive. The new findings suggest that these women may be infertile not because their uteruses are too old but because their ovaries . are, and that with eggs donated by younger women their chances of getting pregnant may be as good as those of the young women themselves. The hitch is, of course, that the children developing from such eggs have the genes of the female donor and are genetically unrelated to the mother who bears them -- a fact that presents...