Nine percent of women reported they wanted to be a veterinarian when they grew up.

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Of the male LinkedIn members who responded to the survey, 6.8% said they wanted to be a scientist when they grew up.

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Many people who went to work the day before the hurricane hit were likely worrying about their next promotion, how to give some tough feedback on an upcoming performance review, or what they really wanted to be when they grew up.

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Tom Berson, a California cryptographer hired by Skype in 2005 to evaluate its security, says he met the programmers, who told him they grew up when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union and had the perils of "wiretapping in mind" when creating Skype.

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And, although they opened up a 10-0 lead through tries by Michael Shenton and Foster, their problems grew when they lost Paul Wellens and Gary Wheeler inside the first half-hour.

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When mice with Usher syndrome were injected with the "genetic patch" they grew up able to hear and had no balance problems.

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They grew up in the Great Depression, in an era when much of the work of agriculture was still done by hand.

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Sharon Martin, who began watching Star Trek when she was 11, says it's almost like they're dissing the generations who grew up on Star Trek.

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And she was counting on that house not only to provide stability for the children as they grew up, but also as an asset that she could borrow against later when the kids wanted and needed money for college to provide that opportunity.

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