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  • Yet these older folks—let's call them "giveback" nation—are more representative of our age's political pains, which will continue for the indefinite future.

    Class War—or Generational War? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • That's why some of the tech age's hottest employers--like Facebook, Google and Microsoft

    Tech Jobs That Pay Over $100,000 2011

  • The term, popularised in the west by science fiction author William Gibson, describes a "passionate obsessive, the information age's embodiment of the connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects".

    Ryan Cleary, LulzSec and the culture of the otaku 2011

  • * Atlas Obscura: A compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica.

    Thor's Day azurelunatic 2009

  • That's why some of the tech age's hottest employers--like Facebook, Google and Microsoft

    Tech Jobs That Pay Over $100,000 2011

  • Raleigh was one of the Elizabethan age's most favored sons, an accomplished officer, courtier and writer, before embarking on a quixotic search for gold in Guiana.

    Nothing Gold Can Stay Hugh Thomson 2011

  • As I walk and ache the slits in my gloves, by the way, largely neutralizing the advantage my matching cap provides my exposed scalp, I wonder what society has come to that somebody thought building holes into gloves provided a net benefit to humanity, that we'd appreciate the convenience of instant access to technology through outerwear, essentially becoming even further enslaved to the digital age's whims.

    Theories, Holes Included Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The term, popularised in the west by science fiction author William Gibson, describes a "passionate obsessive, the information age's embodiment of the connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects".

    Ryan Cleary, LulzSec and the culture of the otaku 2011

  • His courage, his close interaction with the common people, his incorruptibility, his self-composure in front of the public, his steadfast managerial style and his lack of mercy for the corrupt and mediocre officials — all of them regrettably do not belong to this age, or in this age's China.

    Global Voices in English » China: Why Zhu Rongji remains popular 2009

  • Assuming it's beautiful to have a wrinkle free and expressionless face, and awful to give way to the process of age's evidence trampling our youthful appearance into an unrecognizable map of wrinkles and spots, indicative of a life well-lived without too much adieu about exterior merit, where do the vast majority of our population fit into this equation?

    Beauty, Botox and Delving Deeper: Sip Through A Straw I Say! 2010

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