Word: grewing
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...face of their powerless parents, the "authority" projected by demagogues hawking martyrdom and the promise that sacrifice and confrontation will earn their freedom has an irresistible appeal for many young Palestinians. And, of course, parents may have a hard time stopping their children from doing what they themselves grew up doing - after all, the occupation began 33 years ago. Arafat should know better than anyone, because he was once a young rebel himself, rejecting the moderation of his parents' generation, taking over the PLO in 1968 and reorienting it toward independent armed struggle...
Model-plane flyers--and there are lots of them--are a passionate breed. The brainy but little-known hobby has been on the rise in the past five years. Last year membership in the 64-year-old Academy of Model Aeronautics, the hobby's sanctioning body, grew by 6%, the largest increase ever. Some 2,500 clubs across the country meet regularly at lakes, small fields and grand minirunways. Though the flyers start as young as age 6, the hobby is especially popular with retired men. More than half of the AMA's 165,000 members are male...
...Texas, housewife, could not believe it when her daughter Sharon, at the tender age of 4, seemed to be developing breasts. The tiny buds that appeared on the little girl's chest were gone within a couple of weeks, but three years later, they reappeared, and this time they grew--along with pubic hair and hair in Sharon's armpits. "I felt this was too early for her to be developing," recalls Carter. "Gosh, I was flat as a board...
...studies of chemical exposure and puberty in humans. Rogan and his colleagues began with some 600 pregnant women, measuring concentrations of the chemicals in their bodies. When their babies were born, the researchers then measured levels in the mothers' breast milk. Finally, the team monitored the children as they grew and entered puberty...
...insides of her thighs like lightning ripping up two trees at once, leaving her to smolder or maybe burst into flames"--and disturbs her in another way. She has discovered a nest of coyotes on the mountain, the first sighting in the region in decades, and Bondo, who grew up on a sheep ranch in Wyoming, hates coyotes...