Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...August Journal of Urology reports that the incidence of the disease has shot up 51% over the past 40 years. And while it's typically diagnosed between ages 30 and 35, with a second, smaller peak in men over 65, testicular cancer is now showing up in younger and younger men. Despite its low profile, in fact it's the most prevalent form of cancer among men in their...
...Blah Witch Project" was just that--blah. And not scary. Its appeal to the younger set is not so much in its "bold sense of withholding" and "seeming artlessness" but in its Grimm-Golding mix, which zeroes in on the adolescent psyche's worst fears: fear of getting lost in the woods (a la Hansel and Gretel)--leaving home and being without guidance--and fear of the anarchy and tragedy that can ensue without adult supervision (a la Lord of the Flies). Coupled with the reality of the recent high school shootings, this is truly a "grimm" tale that...
...tags and other souvenirs of long lives. In the special section for residents with Alzheimer's, one area is stocked with old tool kits, wedding gowns and a crib with several dolls, haunting but therapeutic props meant to engage the minds of people who have returned in fantasy to younger days when they worked and raised families. "We want to create pleasant days for these folks," says Jennifer Rehm, who runs the busy activity room. "This is not usually a neat place...
...plus drivers will have ballooned to 30 million, and highway-safety experts warn that the number of people killed in crashes involving elderly motorists is likely to surpass the drunk-driving death toll. While it is true that drivers 60 and older have a lower accident rate than younger ones, and that some seniors drive safely into their 90s, others are impaired by such ailments as poor vision, slow reflexes, partial paralysis and dementia. Attempts to identify unfit drivers, moreover, have been haphazard. Some states require frequent vision tests for elderly drivers. Others mandate nothing...
Fewer offenses, Donohue and Levitt point out, are being perpetrated by people ages 24 and younger--those born after abortion was legalized. Increased abortions, they add, reduced the number of "unwanted" children born to teenage, unmarried and poor women--children considered most likely to commit crimes as adults...