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  • Many active middle-agers are wearing out their joints with marathons, triathlons, basketball and tennis and suffering osteoarthritis years earlier than previous generations.

    Pushing Limits of New Knees Melinda Beck 2011

  • Those same women had college-age kids when they were in their forties, as did you, and you were part of a group of "middle-agers."

    Kristen Houghton: Women's Relationships Aren't Age-Specific Anymore Kristen Houghton 2011

  • She argues that Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences should bring cheer to middle-agers who find that they can't remember their neighbor's name.

    Old Enough to Know Better Kay Hymowitz 2012

  • Those amazing years of 70-plus home runs and 98mph fastballs by middle-agers changed the pleasure of watching baseball from sublime to sensational.

    Dark Side of American Optimism 2010

  • I realize "don't ask, don't tell" should apply to middle-agers 'television habits -- my 16-year-old daughter volunteered her disdain for such awards programs -- but you have to understand that I never wanted to hear the Michigan boy in the hooded sweatshirt rap about drinking, fights, love and remorse to a sweet-voiced, soulful pop star repeating her love for his lies.

    Tom Matlack: Eminem a Symbol for Manhood? 2010

  • I realize "don't ask, don't tell" should apply to middle-agers 'television habits -- my 16-year-old daughter volunteered her disdain for such awards programs -- but you have to understand that I never wanted to hear the Michigan boy in the hooded sweatshirt rap about drinking, fights, love and remorse to a sweet-voiced, soulful pop star repeating her love for his lies.

    Tom Matlack: Eminem a Symbol for Manhood? 2010

  • I realize "don't ask, don't tell" should apply to middle-agers 'television habits -- my 16-year-old daughter volunteered her disdain for such awards programs -- but you have to understand that I never wanted to hear the Michigan boy in the hooded sweatshirt rap about drinking, fights, love and remorse to a sweet-voiced, soulful pop star repeating her love for his lies.

    Tom Matlack: Eminem a Symbol for Manhood? 2010

  • The Daily Show and Colbert Report reach a lot of young voters and middle-agers like me who has replaced network news with DC and CR at 10: 00 PM.

    Rahm Emanuel Tells Freshman Reps: Watch Out For Stephen Colbert! 2009

  • I assume many of the NPR-looking middle-agers were online, however.

    Pew: Online Participatory Class is Young and Growing 2009

  • The ones I am most disgusted with are the young bucks and middle-agers – PZ and the gang.

    A View: The Science=Atheism Meme 2007

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