Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduate mothers at Harvard are under 25. Suzanne Girlando '68-'96, had four children when she graduated Harvard at age 39. At that time, her youngest was only eight years old, and her oldest was a student at Boston University...
...were saying "ninth grader" or "aspiring poet," other terms that describe her. Articulate beyond her years, De Vries' work with a gay youth group led to her appointment to an advisory committee of the city's Human Rights Commission. She is, by more than a decade, the committee's youngest member. Jarringly precocious, she scheduled an interview with TIME for a Saturday morning, sparing enough time to attend a "transgender film festival" later that...
...America suffers from what I like to call the 'National Alzheimer's Disease,'" Terkel mused in light of a question concerning the best way of teaching the nation's youngest children a sense of history and identity...
Fahey came from a different world. The youngest of six children in a close-knit middle-class Irish family, Fahey lost her mother to lung cancer when she was nine. In 1986, when Fahey was 20, her father died of leukemia. About the same time, the psychotherapist she trusted and confided in was killed in an automobile accident...
...such a world, a professional recital given by a 16-year-old like violinist Sarah Chang is certainly no uncommon event. Chang was one of the wunderkinds, of course--she made her New York debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 8 and is the youngest performer ever to receive the Avery Fisher Career Grant--but she grew out of her child prodigy title long before she stood on stage at Symphony Hall last Friday night. Chang is no longer miraculous for her age for the same reason she's allowed to drive a car: simply...