Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still plays with X-Men plastic action figures. "He's kind of weird," says Alex, 11, of Fontana, Calif. "None of us play with X-Men anymore. We like PlayStation better." Toy-industry experts call this "age compression"--boys shunning G.I. Joe and girls dissing Barbie at ever younger ages in favor of computer games and sporting goods. And it is just one of the obstacles confronting Toys "R" Us as the nation's No. 1 retailer of playthings tries to get itself back on track...
...three-month-olds to be in classes with six- to 11-month-olds, believing that their infants' cognitive skills will be boosted by being around older babies. That won't work, warns George Washington University psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan. "Six-month-olds will probably intrude on or ignore the younger baby," he says. "What the newborn needs most is protection...
...that we're seniors a lot of guys throw their own parties to meet younger women," Jaime K. Chambron '99 says...
...fulfill several pre-med requirements, is comping the photography board at the Harvard Year-book and the Independent and is already volunteering for the Science Girls' Club at The King School. The after-school program for elementary school girls will allow her to serve as a role model for younger students...
...There's some imaging data suggesting that during learning they tend not to recruit [the same areas as younger adults,]" Wagner says. "Is this a strategic shift? If not, what can we do to recruit those areas...