Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Webster Groves students' approach to romance may puzzle their parents, but it is familiar to any student of anthropology. Childhood friendships that naturally flow into sex as girls and boys mature are a common pattern in tribal societies, in which everyone knows everyone else and sexuality is taken in stride. So are sexual practices designed to avoid pregnancy, and a lack of desire to spend time with one's partner to the exclusion of other young people--just as at Webster Groves. Dating is a modern invention, which makes sense only among large groups of people who do not know...
...time," she decided, "to be exposed to something completely different." Rachel Polner, 21, a Denver resident, considered several institutions, including Princeton, but stopped looking at U.S. schools after the University of York in England made her an unconditional offer. She knows England well, having vacationed there during her childhood, and was pleased that she would be allowed to concentrate entirely on her chosen subject, English literature. Todd Makurath, 20, decided not to return for his sophomore year at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina because he "wanted to be in a much more stimulating academic environment." Regaled with tales about...
...says she has had many mentors--such as State Rep. Alice K. Wolf, whose re-election campaign Decker successfully managed last year--who influenced her in her childhood and continue to guide her to this...
Clemente is ready this season for this brand of rough-and- tumble basketball, and his childhood days of playing ball laid the foundation for his current success...
...year journey around the world to write a book about humanity's environmental future. A 30-year-old economics professor who was liked on sight by virtually everyone he met, Zhenbing was my interpreter during five weeks of travel throughout China. A born storyteller, he often recalled his childhood in a tiny village northwest of Beijing. Like most Chinese peasants of that era, Zhenbing's parents were too poor to buy coal. Instead, in a climate like Boston's, where winter temperatures often plunged below zero, they burned dried leaves to heat their mud hut. Their home's inside walls...