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Article: Planets in all the wrong places.(WEB)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 6, 2006
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Byline: Michelle Thaller csmonitor.com
At my age, I really should have expected this to happen. All of a sudden I'm seeing lots of little clues that the 1980s are making something of a nostalgic comeback. High school kids I speak to as part of my job have started wearing thin ties and studded belts, and I thoroughly approve of their newly spiked and teased hairstyles. The other day I saw a pair of plastic sandals (remember Jellies?) in a store window and heard Bon Jovi playing on a "classic rock" station. That's right; I'm a golden oldie.
Take, for instance, the fact that when I was in graduate school, a mere 10 years ago, we had no knowledge of planets ...