Word: grewing
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Everyone, at some point or another, and whether they will admit it now or not, dreamed of being a rock star when they grew up. I freely admit that for a significant portion of my life, I desperately wanted to be Debbie Gibson...
...grew up in New York, but you went to film school out at University of Southern California. How did you like...
...grew up in New York and was living in Queens until I was 18, and then went to University of Southern Crappola [USC] film school. It's a wonderful program, but it's much less my taste than I would have appreciated. I remember freshman orientation when they went around the room and said, what is it that you're into, what movies do you love, why are you here? I remember they went around the room and it was like, Jaws, Star Wars, Star Wars, Jaws, Star Wars, Star Wars, Eight and a Half, Jaws, Star Wars, Star Wars...
...take so long? Who's involved? "We grew up, certainly I grew up, thinking that space was our future," says Jim Van Laak, the philosophical manager for space-station operations at NASA. "You look back at movies like '2001: A Space Odyssey?' and we thought we'd have a colony on the moon by this point. The practical matter is that it's a lot harder than we thought, and we have to take one step at a time. The technology, the understanding of how to keep people alive in space for long periods of time comes slowly...
...much a generation gap as a gulf between the experience of different elements of the Palestinian leadership. Those who grew up under Israeli occupation are increasingly skeptical of the abilities of the leaders who came from abroad. They see themselves as the ones who know how to handle the Israelis, and they believe that the returning exiles have achieved pitifully little after seven years of negotiation. A growing number of Palestinians blame not only the Israelis, but also their current leadership for their current plight, and that makes the current intifada also an implicit protest against the Palestinian establishment...