Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prince Charles took Lady Diana Spencer for his wife, the occasion was rich with fairy-tale solemnity. As the heir to the throne exchanged troths with a bashful girl just past her teens, it seemed that Prince Charming rode with Sleeping Beauty in a coach of glass. When Charles' younger brother and Diana's fourth cousin wed last week, it was a jollier occasion, a larkish high-society romance scripted by P.G. Wodehouse. No foreign heads of state were present, and no national holiday was declared. Instead, the abbey was full of family and friends, there to celebrate Queen...
...older person was chosen for this study because she normally followed a regular sleeping-waking schedule, and because her system was most susceptible to light during the evening hours, unlike those of younger people, who react most strongly in the middle of the night, said Czeisler, who co-authored the study appearing today in the journal Science...
...added that conclusions drawn from this single case would need to be confirmed by future studies. "More research must be conducted on younger subjects in order to discover normal response rates to bright light exposure," said James Allan '86, Czeisler's assistant, whose project inspired the study...
...days, Dolenz maintains, is that "now it's mothers with their daughters fighting for autographs." The response has been so enthusiastic that a new greatest-hits album is selling well, and CBS may soon revive the series -- with a new generation of Monkees, of course. Meanwhile, the old -- or younger, anyway -- Monkees have already been back on TV: this year, 22 straight hours of the 1966-68 show were aired...
...Administration was under pressure to act as national concern about drugs seemed to be reaching new heights. "Crack," the powerful form of coke that can be purchased for as little as $10 and is smoked in a glass pipe, is seducing younger Americans who could never afford the drug in its more expensive powdered form. One study reported that cocaine has spread to as many as one-third of America's college students. Since 1980, cocaine-related deaths have tripled. The deaths last month of University of Maryland Basketball Player Len Bias, 22, and Cleveland Browns Defensive Back Don Rogers...