• Mohamed had a French nanny, was educated at private schools, and at nineteen was the national youth squash champion.

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  • Married at nineteen, with three children by twenty-seven, she had moved eighteen times with a grass-is-greener spouse, and then became divorced after seventeen years.

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  • He married at nineteen, had three children, divorced, and married again.

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  • One published image showed Jessica, breaking a British press rule about paparazzi shots of children. (It was not republished.) More recently, Rowling and Murray were photographed on an Edinburgh street, and the published shot showed the face of their son, David, at nineteen months.

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  • But he stopped producing foals and was sent to slaughter by his owners at age nineteen.

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  • The most influential sprang up in the nineteen-eighties at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was popularized in books by Steven Pinker and others in the nineteen-nineties, and has largely won over science reporters.

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  • At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.

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  • Nineteen people sit at small tables in a room tricked out to look like a KFC restaurant.

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  • Nineteen people sit at small tables in a room tricked out to look like a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant.

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  • The interview with Dr. Changizi, who is Director of Human Cognition at 2AI Labs, begins nineteen minutes into the show.

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  • Nineteen Bulgarians were detained at the time, along with other foreign and local workers.

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  • Describes how graduate student Karen Lips observed the mysterious disappearance of large numbers of local golden frogs, in the nineteen-nineties, at several locations in Panama and Costa Rica.

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  • The population of Detroit, at its peak, in the early nineteen-fifties, was 1.8 million people.

    NEWYORKER: Good Fights

  • Nineteen full-time professors teach at the school, which has received college credit recommendations from the American Council on Education ( ACE).

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  • He was a standout high-school high jumper and played basketball at a junior college nearby, in the late nineteen-eighties.

    NEWYORKER: King of Walks

  • Such a solitary demise would have been unimaginable to anyone who knew Firestone in the late nineteen-sixties, when she was at the epicenter of the radical-feminist movement, surrounded by some of the same women who, a month after her death, gathered in St.

    NEWYORKER: Death of a Revolutionary

  • Nineteen people with a range of disabilities work at the plant on Elliot Road.

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  • On average, in the past decade, fossil-fuel emissions grew at about three times the rate of growth in the nineteen-nineties.

    NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

  • When I was in high school, at Horace Mann, in the Bronx, in the nineteen-seventies, everyone took pride in the brilliant eccentricity of our teachers.

    NEWYORKER: The Master

  • The setting is Yorkshire in the nineteen-eighties a grammar school at which a group of eight boys, seven of them very bright, are being prepped for mind-crushing exams that could lead to a place to read history at Oxford or Cambridge.

    NEWYORKER: The History Boys

  • Wolfowitz taught himself Arabic in the nineteen-eighties, when he was working at the State Department. (He also speaks French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.) Last year, during a visit to a mosque in eastern China, he recited a prayer from the Koran in Arabic.

    NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

  • At the University of Kentucky, in the mid-nineteen-nineties, Pitino took his team to the Final Four three times and won a national championship with full-court pressure, and then rode the full-court press back to the Final Four in 2005, as the coach at the University of Louisville.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • He came from a poor rural background, but he had managed, in the nineteen-sixties, to get a good education at a school for future teachers.

    NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

  • During her college years, in the early nineteen-seventies, she worked briefly as a teller at a small-town bank, like the ones that make up the bulk of the F.

    NEWYORKER: The Contrarian

  • He then charts the even greater triumphs at Pixar and at a resurgent Apple, when Jobs returns, in the late nineteen-nineties, and our natural expectation is that Jobs will emerge wiser and gentler from his tumultuous journey.

    NEWYORKER: The Tweaker

  • One study of the Red Brigades, the Italian terrorist group of the nineteen-seventies, found that seventy per cent of recruits had at least one good friend already in the organization.

    NEWYORKER: Small Change

  • During the nineteen-nineties, he spent a year in the Soviet Union, at the Leningrad lab of Mikhail Budyko, who is considered the founder of physical climatology.

    NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

  • Looking at recessions over the past forty years, a recovery in employment occurs (on average) nineteen months after GDP growth ends a recession.

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  • Nineteen American states still prohibit fetal-tissue transplants (although the law is being challenged in at least one of them--Arizona).

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  • Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, but Orwell was first set on the road to it at least 12 years earlier when he was fighting Franco's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).

    BBC: 1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia

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